alt Hacker News> designing and manufacturing custom molds for each knob and function ... dash does have a cost.
Manufacturing car components already involves designing and custom molds, does it not? Compared to the final purchase price, the cost of adding knobs to that stack seems inconsequential.
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antisthenes • yesterday at 1:13 AM
Yeah, seems like a really weird cope to defend the automakers.
Your average transmission will have an order of magnitude more parts that also needed to be designed and produced with much higher precision.
The interior knob controls are just a rounding error in the cost structure.
Yes, but the touch screen is one large mold. The button needs a custom mold for each button. The touch screen also has large flat areas with reduces cost since is prevents extra cost round shapes.