The move is part of move away from touchscreen controls, which drivers complained were tedious and dangerous to use while driving.

Volkswagen will restore physical buttons to the dashboard in its latest compact car, part of a wider move away from touchscreens.

In a particularly retro touch, the new ID Polo will even have a volume dial.

For a decade or so, automakers rushed to replace knobs and switches with screens, Autoblog noted in October, but users largely disliked them: Controlling the air conditioning, for example, required delving through submenus while driving, which was both difficult and dangerous. Research found that using touchscreens took longer and distracted drivers.

Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and VW have all announced plans to return to more tactile controls, and US and EU regulators announced last year that cars with touchscreen controls could get worse safety ratings.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    3 days ago

    Finally undoing the damage to design apple and John goingToSt Ives did.

    If only we would also undo the other trends apple did, “Treating the customer like they are stupid”, walled gardens(we control your device not you) and everyone’a favourite: it’s in the store for 99cents

    Edit: there’s a time and a place for multi touch, capacitive screens; it’s with unorthodox uis or things with a heavy emphasis on portability and video.

        • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          But Tesla was the first to glue an iPad to the dash that does everything, because Tesla builds cheap crap and buttons cost money.

          • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            is that why my fucking electric hob has no buttons? no. the general wave that led to the fucking car having an Ipad was… the iphone