if you cannot control 90% of your car with your eyes on the road, then it’s a bad design.
Eh, I say it’s fine just for the most commonly used stuff.
The reason why touchscreens became so popular in the beginning is because cars were getting more complex with more features, and having individual buttons to control everything was beginning to require literally hundreds of buttons.
The ideal compromise is to put commonly used things – the sort of things you might use every day – into physical controls, but to leave all the more obscure features and settings in the screen.
Eh, I say it’s fine just for the most commonly used stuff.
The reason why touchscreens became so popular in the beginning is because cars were getting more complex with more features, and having individual buttons to control everything was beginning to require literally hundreds of buttons.
The ideal compromise is to put commonly used things – the sort of things you might use every day – into physical controls, but to leave all the more obscure features and settings in the screen.
What got more complex other than audio from your phone and a gps map?
Take the seats for example.
Nothing --> heated seats (1 button) --> heated/ventilated seats (2 buttons) --> heated/ventilated/massaging seats (3 buttons) --> heated/ventilated/massaging seats with multiple different massage modes (??? buttons)
And that’s just one thing, not even worrying about all the additional power adjustments seats tend to have these days.
(I’d still want physical buttons for the heated/ventilated seats … but, yeah. The rest of that, you can put in the screen.)
None of that needs a screen.
My seats adjust all kinds of ways without a screen.
I have heated and cooled seats… with buttons.
So again I ask, what changed that can’t be buttons?