Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

That’s another good step. I wrote about this last week < https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/touch-screens-everywh...>. Touch screens are an unsuitable form of interaction because of the implicit requirement to ‘watch what you are doing’, inherently slower and more dangerous to use in a car.

I’m seeing some brands say they have physical buttons but they aren’t the same. They’re more like touch based buttons that are not in a screen. And I feel they’re just as bad. I want to be able to use the button without looking. Like one car had a touch based slider for operating the air vents. Ridiculous

I'm still waiting for Volkswagen to do this after stating the same plan not long ago.

There is another thing that reduces the safety of car - it is sunroof. In India, all top trims come with sunroof. I believe, sunroof can not provide the safety that of one without sunroof. More ever, it can absorb significantly more heat compared one without sunroof.

In the future, physical buttons will be considered a luxury.

'So what are we gonna do with those thousands of people, who changed the UI and could be fired? Let's make them roll whole controls idea back'

Physical buttons are another reason I absolutely love my 24 4Runner, absolutely huge and clear labeled knobs and buttons all over the place, I feel like being in a cockpit when I drive it.

Whatever is happening in car industry, it is so unexciting, over-engineered, and too glossy. I'm so happy I don't have to work for people who prefer new car toy over paying me a decent salary.

I imagine the buttons sunk deep into the panel only to come out wheen subscribing to the monthly premium package....

Company/State bends to the mindless whims of boomers yet again.

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Cool. But how about they also do something to help prevent the entire EV market going to China.