Link: https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/

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This sort of thing looked cool and futuristic for about a year. But, now these full-dash displays look cheap and fadish, along with being impractical.

I’ve always said, if you cannot control 90% of your car with your eyes on the road, then it’s a bad design.

I can’t wait for the knob revolution. (Pun intended)

My car had a touchsccreen feature but I just prefer to use the redundant physical dial and buttons instead.

One day I started getting very weird button press bugs, turns out it was the layer of touchscreen that got too hot and was interpreting pressure. Fortunatly you can disasemble the dash and unplug the touchscreen layer without affecting the screen.

I find it really cool that I no longer have touchscreen in my car. It was never needed in the first place.

Finally. I looked at fully electric cars recently but damn, almost all of them seem to be trying to hard to copy everything I hate from Tesla, not least the minimalism taken to far with over reliance on touch infotainment at the center.

I’ve been arguing this point since all my tech co-worker peers started mumbling about their teslas.

Here’s the thing: we keep missing the happy middle ground: user configurable buttons.

I don’t know why my current vehicle has track skip buttons on the center console next to the emergency lights buttons. I would love a fan-off button/hard touchpoint though. That one’s in the infotainment screen.

Also: buttons should have positive feedback so we don’t need to take our eyes off the road.

A world where we have buttons AND can configure most/many/some of them is the right choice.

what does that have to do with EVs specifically? this hellish design reality is all new cars, ICE included