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100% touchscreen nuke control room - improvement or abomination?
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.
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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...
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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...
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