Fucking THANK YOU. It’s like all the automotive interior designers just hotboxed themselves for a decade with all the unnecessary and less useful touch interfaces and are finally coming back down to earth.
I’m not sure it was the designers but the executives. Touchscreens are insanely cheap compared to buttons and all the wiring involved. Like the main reason that Tesla does everything on a touch screen is that software is soooo much cheaper than hardware.
I like a hybrid, tbh. My car has a sizeable touchscreen that android auto connects to, and I use it a lot for media and navigation.
But things like climate control have physical buttons. Works really well for me and I like the combination approach.
Yeah I don’t mind the combo as long as the important stuff you interact with regularly is still physical. If I have to go into a menu to change climate controls, you have officially fucked up.
You always must look at a touch screen to press a button. There’s no reason to use a touchscreen interface for anything a driver might want to do while driving.
I have the same gripe with TV remotes.
The worst I’ve ever seen was needing to interact with the touchscreen to open the glove box. Absolutely ridiculous.
Same with mine. That was something I was looking for when I bought this car actually. I wanted physical buttons and knobs for everything that wasn’t infotainment system related. The steering wheel has buttons to control things like volume and tack/station skipping as well. Even having a physical shifter was a necessity for me because these button or weird electronic shifters are a pain in my ass and can potentially be dangerous if you’re unfamiliar.
Right! The design for climate control and radio adjustments should just be buttons.
The touch screen should be a display for android auto and carplay as it is an addition not a replacement.
Hopefully as economies of scale apply more to evs there will be less justification to cut down on costs in favour of touch screens doing everything.
Return to Button 🐒
I’m really growing to appreciate them after hearing about the user design horror stories
It shouldn’t even be legal to not have buttons for everything but CarPlay/Android auto (which should still be required to have buttons/knobs for volume and skip forward/back)
One of the reasons that my last vehicle purchase was a Honda is because they have kept the climate control buttons and the volume knob for the radio. I decided against a few brands because they had those things into a shitty touchscreen.
Now if they could just get a more responsive touchscreen model I would be even happier!
Fuckin’ finally.
Take my 2014 Crosstrek and jam the drivetrain from the Ioniq 5 in it, change nothing else, and I’ll buy two.
Thats great!
I feel like this is a problem already well-studied and solved by industry, particularly aviation and rail.
A hybrid interface like this one (obviously with more advanced graphics) seems so obviously the way to go.
yay
