Haptic Solutions for Automotive: Safety

Haptic feedback for digital controls provides unmistakable confirmation, which can reduce glance time and minimize driver distraction.

Increase Confidence

For touchscreens, touch panels, and touch surfaces, haptics:

• Increases users’ confidence that their input was accepted, so they can quickly return their focus to the road
• Leads to fewer and less forceful presses, reducing distraction  
• Helps minimize adverse effects of screen glare

Increase Controllability

For controls with two-dimensional movement, like joysticks, haptics:

• Gives digital controls mechanical feel, providing the right amount of resistance and tactility to help a driver quickly navigate a cursor around a display and make selections

Increase Comfort and Ease

For rotary and multifunction controllers, haptics:

• Provides an authentic, mechanical-like feel and confirming response, so selections can be made quickly and eyes can stay on the road
• Provides functionality matched to several applications, such as climate, communications, and entertainment, which can bring the control within easy reach and reduce glance time