alt Hacker NewsEven Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs.
I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons were perfect, yet they've taken them away.
There must be some grand anti-button conspiracy, it just doesn't make any sense.
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mparkms • yesterday at 9:38 PM
Chasing trends and it's now cheaper to have a single touchscreen with software controls than to design and manufacture physical controls.
bluGill • yesterday at 10:21 PM
A screen costs 75, a button is 1 each. You get a lot more that 100 buttons on a screen.
Not to mention the physical space a button takes.
There’s less need for a physical button for those things now that climate control algo has become so good it has been on Auto the entire time for me.