The development path of automobiles from physical buttons to touch buttons is changing dramatically along with the popularization of intelligent systems in cars. From the car's traditional physical button switch to the current popular touch switch, what will bring changes in the use of habits? These changes are good or bad, in this article, let's briefly explore:
Advantages of touch switches
Due to the high degree of integration and multifunctionality of automobiles, as the control center of the car, the recent traditional car in the central control area had to be through a large number of key switches to achieve the growing variety of functions. In recent years, the emergence of the display screen began to take on many of the functions of the center control section, but in order to achieve the convenience of the driver's control, the steering wheel of the car still has to exist in the vehicle many control functions of the key switches, such as the vehicle audio sound control, car phone, cruise control and so on. Dense traditional button switches result in control functions occupying a large area of the car, a style that is not in line with the popular integrated design of the automotive intelligent cockpit, and its ease of use is also questionable. As a result, OEMs are considering introducing touch control solutions into the car to replace the traditional buttons and switches.
Compared with traditional buttons, touch switches have great advantages in space, use and design:
1. Lightweight and space saving. Touch switches can integrate a large number of structures on a single film, which saves a lot of space while being lightweight.
2. High degree of design freedom. Replacing physical buttons with automotive touch switches allows for a higher degree of product integration and a cleaner design.
3. Aesthetics. The panel pattern can be arbitrary, the size and shape of the keys can be designed arbitrarily, and the characters, trademarks and see-through windows can be matched arbitrarily, with a beautiful and fashionable appearance, without fading and deformation.
4. Convenient operation. Capacitive inductive touch switch does not need to press the traditional physical keys, convenient operation, even with gloves can also be used, and is not affected by the weather dry and humid human body resistance changes, more convenient to use.
5. High durability. Theoretically, the touch switch does not have any mechanical parts, will not wear and tear, unlimited life, reducing the cost of late maintenance.
6. Waterproof and dustproof, good stability. Its sensing part can be placed behind any insulating layer, and it is easy to make an integrated design that is sealed from the surrounding environment. Capacitive inductive touch switch can penetrate the insulating material shell about 3mm, and accurately detect the effective touch of the finger. It also ensures that the sensitivity, stability and reliability of the product will not change due to changes in environmental conditions or long-term use, and has waterproof and strong anti-interference ability.
More and more automobile manufacturers are beginning to cancel the complicated physical buttons in the center control, and use touch screen or touch button switches on a large scale. In particular, the traditional switches at the steering wheel are changed to touch control solutions. However, for the driver, in the case of not being able to quickly and accurately know their own operation, driving while operating seems to be easily distracted, affecting driving safety.
The touch switch cannot realize blind operation like the traditional switch, giving feedback to the driver. Let the user does not have a sense of security at the same time, it is true that in some functions there may be a false touch, and cause insecurity, so how to realize the good feedback of the touch switch is one of the main ideas of the moment.
Intelligent era, automotive touch touch switch to replace the traditional key switch is the trend, how to create a better user experience is the focus.
