Hey, @evanevery - I don't know if you've answered this before, and I haven't tried it, but...what happens if you connect a mouse with a scroll wheel to one of the USBs port in the car?
Good lord! I hope NOTHING!
Nah. I'm thinking that a HID profile would allow the creation of an iDrive-like "knob".
If there truly is some sort of support for a mouse (or trackball!) that would make me very scared that they "ported" this software from some other "non-vehicular" project. That would be very sad and scary indeed...
Well, I mean, we know it's a Unix core and Docker, and if you look at the reboot screen it pretty clearly has development modes, and you know that runs in a simulator (maybe not even much of one!) in a regular, non-car environment, so it wouldn't shock me that there might be mouse support in there.
Yes, you are absolutely correct. It could be designed to support a mouse for "development" mode. I didn't consider that...
Thinking about this even more, it seems clear that the "touchpad" that they're showing is likely a HID-simulation, too, and kind of indicative of what mouse support would "look like" - but they may not have mapped it into the hardware USB ports.
Alas. Well, it was a thought.
If it truly was supported, and then ported to an "online simulator", they wouldn't need to present the simulator interface as a video presentation. They could make it available as a direct UI in a web app. (Avidyne does this with their Aviation panels. You can download an app which is a PC fork of the actual panel software.)
You can drive the car by scrolling the mouse wheel!
