General > General Technical Chat
100% touchscreen nuke control room - improvement or abomination?
<< < (3/9) > >>
duckduck:
They should set it all up as an app on iOS so that they could put all of the control screens on an iPad. Then they could swipe, pinch-zoom, and long-press their way through all of the screens. Since it would already be WiFi-enabled at that point, it wouldn't be much more difficult to set it up so that it could be controlled remotely, even from a Starbucks. "Excuse me, the WiFi password written on the chalkboard behind the counter doesn't seem to be working. Can you please look into that on your break?"
Circlotron:
AFAIK nobody does car* braking by wire, so why do they think this is a good idea?

*Trailers sometimes.
SiliconWizard:
I've already said what I thought about touchscreen interfaces.
Using them for anything remotely critical is pure nonsense.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on August 17, 2021, 12:05:23 am ---AFAIK nobody does car* braking by wire, so why do they think this is a good idea?

*Trailers sometimes.

--- End quote ---

afaiu braking and steering are required to be a mechanical connection
AlbertL:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on August 16, 2021, 09:45:26 pm ---This comes to my mind:


But really, what happens if you accidentally pour coffe on the touchscreen?

It is already bad enough that Renault and Teasla think that placing frequently used functions in a car on a touchscreen in a sub menu.
Like you have to fiddle with it for 30 seconds and drive into a ditch because your window fogged up, and its in the menu, and not on a button on the dash...

--- End quote ---

In fact, a lot of nuclear plants have a railing or raised lip at the lower edge of the control consoles for just that reason.  Apparently there have been incidents... 
Navigation
Message Index
Next page
Previous page
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...

Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod