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0 pointsetskinner2y ago0 comments

And it makes no sense from a usability/safety perspective.

Touchscreens are harder to hit buttons right when you're being jostled about by turbulence. Not to mention how easy it is to hit the wrong button even when there's no turbulence. Have you noticed how liberal all smartphones are with autocorrect lately?

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seabass-labrax2y ago

The flight deck of the Airbus A380 widebody airliner must be the most comfortable and ergonomic in existence, with a full laptop-style QWERTY keyboard for each pilot and two additional mini QWERTY keyboards on the center pedestal. There have also been no fatal accidents on the type; maybe the well-designed cockpit has something to do with that.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Airbus_A...

userbinator2y ago

Also the fact that with a set of switches, if one doesn't work, it doesn't affect the others. Touchscreens seem to fail all-or-nothing, or at least have large areas suddenly become unusable.

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