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And under that they will sell the cars even more expensive with the excuse that it's safer LOL at the price that many new cars are being sold, only if people stop buying them new, and look for a viable used option, the prices of new would eventually go down.

Anyone who finds this "amazing" should never be allowed to drive a vehicle again.

Partly, it was automaker thinking that Tesla's success had something to do with their (IMO awful) interiors. Looks terrible, and now we know, functions abysmally and is, unsurprisingly, given Elon's input into the process, ultimately dangerous.

Damn straight. This is the dashboard we want to see.

Not to mention the blinding brightness from screens on unlit roads. SAAB had an ingenious Night Panel feature that turned off any unnecessary distracting light. youtu.be/Xgh2zbifn7E?...

thank gosh darn heck! I absolutely hate touch screens and using these for essential functions is a recipe for accidents!

Amazingly we’ve had at least a decade and a half public safety campaign against distracted driving while simultaneously equipping new vehicles designed to be operated by giant distraction screens

Awesome! 👏🏻

Good, a basic dash works for me.

My read from this is that drunk driving doesn't actually seem to affect reaction times badly at all...1.12s vs. 1s is almost barely detectable. We sure the drunk driving bar is correct?

I'm shocked! Trying to sell a costcutting measure as a premium feature backfired?! Who could've guessed...

The children yearn for the buttons

The day I had to give up my manual transmission, no automatic anything, not even power steering, 2000 Saturn sl1 was a sad day. Unfortunately, I really needed something that was easier to get in and out of for mobility reasons.

I would buy a car with buttons if it were made available. I hate touch screens!

Finally. I've wondered how long until car manufacturers understand physical buttons are preferred. Just waiting for them to make them options to buy separately 🙄

Meanwhile... "The OR of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder."

They literally had to tear mine out of my hands. I still bear a grudge over that.

Hold on, dusting off my Time Machine and dialing in for 2009 to discuss buttons with my Blackberry-using self.

Can we also roll back halogen lights on vehicles, please? I’m tired of being blinded by an SUV with the light of a thousand suns coming from each bulb.

Not sure why anyone would be amazed to learn this. Now, learning that EU motor regulators have. Ot yet prohibited this - now THAT really is amazing.

It's cost and styling driven choice on stoves. We have a Siemens with touch control and it's tolerable but obviously knobs would be far more intuitive.

No… they’re not.

Sigh. Change is hard. Please go back to rotary phones.

Amazing how long this obvious fact took to sink in.

Need voice command tech?

I can absolutely HATE the touchscreen temp control in my Jeep Grand Cherokee.

More proof that losers who pay their test-tube baby mammas in horses are NOT Engineers

This is a classic example of science taking too long to disprove the innovation.

Don't just let them walk this back and be done with it. Start putting people in prison for it. Whoever started installing touchscreens in cars needs to be PUNISHED for it. It wasn't just irresponsible it was criminally negligent from day one, and they KNEW it was.

Thank goodness! Screens of any kind are so offputting in a car, especially for controlling anything in a car. Cannot stand them.

Went with an induction stove recently, and the first one we bought was operated solely via touchscreen. Absolutely hated it and returned it. Got the exact same oven in terms of functionality, but with knobs, and it was cheaper and better.

F.I.N.A.L.L.Y

Good - about time

Thank F for that! Humans are analogue beings- we need tactile feedback so we don’t have to keep looking at the damn things to see if we ‘touched’ it correctly.

My RAV4 Prime has plenty of buttons, which makes me happy, but I would loved if it had a play/pause button. Somehow, you can seek back and forth, raise and lower volume, and change audio sources, all from the driving wheel, but you still have to go to the screen to start and stop your media!

I do love data larger than my own sample size

I cannot ser "rejoice" without thinking of "The Horse We’ve Been Training To Skydive Has Returned To The Arms Of The Lord"

My car doesn’t have touch screen. Drives me nuts. Though i do appreciate my buttons. Just wish i had both options.

Me too.😓

amen

Glad to see this. Cars should need to be stopped when engaging touchscreens. Touchscreens demand far to much attention at the expense of watching the road. Having too many buttons can also be too much distraction from driving. For things like HVAC and audio sys navigation, knobs s/b required.