Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls.::Volkswagen says that it has heard the feedback from its customers. It plans to bring back physical buttons and controls in future models.
Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls.::Volkswagen says that it has heard the feedback from its customers. It plans to bring back physical buttons and controls in future models.
I’m fine with some touch controls, but volume, temperature, and gear shifter should never be touch only. All 3 are frequent operations in a vehicle and require too much visual focus when you’re trying to drive. It’s unsafe to take your eyes off the road for this to check the precision of your change. The advantage of physical buttons is that you can adjust them without looking. Also, for volume especially, you frequently want to go from zero/very low volume to higher volume and vice versa. A lot of touch controls are tap-based. Changing volume by tapping is tedious. Tap and hold is worse because you’ll likely overshoot your mark and stress out yourself and your passengers by blasting the volume. Temperature has similar issues, but not as bad because the range of adjustments required aren’t as drastic. Nonetheless, I change the temp often enough, that I don’t want to look.
And, don’t get me started on going between drive and reverse with a touch screen while trying to execute a 3-point turn. People with Teslas always try to defend this with me and, I’m sorry, but no. Changing drive modes should require a physical shifter by law, for safety.
Ok but hear me out… We could save a couple of bucks putting all pedals in the touch screen as well. All those mechanical parts are costly. And now that I think of it, the steering, my god, the steering! Your wallet will thank us for the extra profit we’ll make from cost cutting.
Volume is already handled from the steering wheel in all modern cars? Can you even get cars anymore without steering wheel controls for basic things like volume/mute, calls etc.?
As for gear shifter, that’s not important, you’re not changing gears while moving unless you’re driving a manual, in which case it’s still a mechanical lever anyways.
Yeah, I dislike the volume controls on steering wheels. Admittedly, those are mostly buttons, but what you really need is a knob. No one wants to press a button 30 times to raise or lower the volume.
And, I’d encourage you to read the last bit of my comment about changing drive modes while doing a 3-point turn around strongest reasons for a physical shifter.
I have steering wheel volume buttons and they are more of a pain then reaching for the know to turn it.
Don’t Teslas have physical gear shifters?
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-E9B387D7-AFEF-4AAF-8685-4FE71E09287D.html
Oh, TIL the Model S doesn’t. The only Tesla I’ve been in is a Model Y and that one does have a physical one.