11-30-2009, 06:33 AM
Don C wrote:
Car makers have had a few years now to figure out where knobs and switches should go. It's not as though they were starting from scratch with every new model. Sure there are some new knobs and switches (my 1967 Opel did not have a USB port) but it had controls for lights and the wiper.
Exactly. I had a human factors prof. over 25 years ago who was in contact with persons doing ergonomic studies at the auto makers. Almost none of their studies were getting published, legal did not want this information out there to be used by lawyers in liability cases if they used less optimum layouts. Lots of those were being used for cost cutting or marketing reasons. So he could get some broad ideas of what they were researching, and sometimes get hints at where to take his own work which could be published.