Not all of the buttons. Please be reasonable. Just some of the buttons.
I don’t need memory buttons.
I don’t want to push the button half a dozen times, just to miss the menu I wanted by 1 click, and have to go around again.
I don’t need separate am fm and cd buttons.
I really don’t mind a touch screen for climate control, or audio interface. Just keep the business from moving around the screen at all and I’m pretty happy.
I was with you up until the climate controls.
Any control you can find in a 1997 Hyundai Accent should be physical.
Anything else can be hidden behind a touchscreen because I’m not going to use it while driving anyway.
My big request would be to drop the USB cable. I don’t know why I need to connect both USB and Bluetooth. I’d love to just leave my cell in my bag where it belongs instead of advertising yet another reason why someone should smash my windows in!
Really the only thing on my Tesla I ever need to access on the touchscreen while driving is the climate controls (assuming I don’t want to use voice, which is a pain as it hears you wrong)
The other used to be fog lights, but I just keep those on now for extra visibility, like another day time running light.
Everything else including wipers I can do from the wheel now without having to touch the screen.
I only use voice to choose a new song/artist, I’m not trying to navigate spotify by hand while driving.
Yeah climate control is where he lost me. My wife’s Honda odyssey has that.
I’m okay with the soft-buttons for memory, or to toggle input, since they are always in fixed locations. In fact soft-buttons are slightly better because they are labeled with the station….though my 2013 Passat has the better compromise of a physical button with the station printed above it.
But HVAC is where I draw the line. I guess the trade off would be that a thermostatically controlled digital systems are probably more simplistic, in their operation and maintenance, than the vacuum-and-linkage systems of yore, and this gives way to multi-zone climate systems in mass market cars. But I still hate that I have to utilize the touchscreen to change which blowers are on or to change the temperature in the rear zone, which blocks GPS if you’re using CarPlay/Android Auto/Nav (I’d assume, I don’t have nav).
Unpopular opinion: Unresponsive buttons are just as bad as unresponsive touchscreens. And touchscreens are not bad if you don’t have 5 keys presses to get what you want, if you can customise your layout and if the system is not underpowered as they always seem to be.
there should never be a fucking touch screen menu in a car for any reason
Maps? Android Auto / CarPlay? Gotta have the screen anyway for the mandatory backup camera.
We can have both! Physical buttons for everything that doesn’t actually benefit from having a display, (like music or heat/ac), touch screen for the rest.
You want buttons back because they’re easier to use
I want them back because I think car interiors look bland without them
We are not the same…alright I also want them back for the first reason aswell.
I wonder if they can also make a vehicle not near the bottom of the reliability rankings next?
Lol, careful, you’ll waken the VW mob. They don’t like to hear what garbage VWs are.
Can’t give me one.
It appears there has been a few that caught this. I was surprised they were so far down the Consumer’s Report list for reliability as it was but honestly I don’t really think of the brand that much as it’s something my parents owned when I was a little kid then they moved onto Toyota and domestics.
It’s not to say others are better. I’ve was surprised by Ford’s decent down the list but not by Jeep’s continued place down there and I’ve owned many Jeeps.
