On 6/22/07, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > navigation system is a worthwhile reason to have a monitor in the > > middle of the dashboard, but using it for anything else is what > > happens when you let the engineers get the upper hand over the > > human-factors people. > > More like an unholy alliance of Game-boy engineers and bean > counters. Not real engineers! :-) >
Agreed. The bean-counters must have a lot to do with it. It's undoubtedly cheaper per car to add some more code to control a new feature through the touch screen rather than add a new physical control panel or even just an extra button. :( Alex Chamberlain _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
