It was obvious to tech types why #Tesla went with a touchscreen interface for their interiors: #Touchscreens are WAY cheaper than gauges, buttons, & knobs.
Tesla spent their R&D dollars in their powertrains, and they became rightfully famous for it, but they spent virtually zero on the vehicle interiors and instead touted the bland interiors as minimalist design ethos…and it worked.
And instead of staying the course, the industry followed, and now people are mad.
Deswegen gibt's dedizierte Knöpfe, Hebel und Schalter in Land- wie Wasserfahrzeugen sowie Flugzeugen und deshalb werden auch bei digitalen Anzeigen weiterhin analoge Instrumente dargestellt:
Weil diese intuitiver ablesbar und weil intuitive Reaktionsfähigkeit wichtiger ist.
Automakers are starting to realize that putting every control on a touchscreen was a bad idea, and they’re finally bringing buttons back again.
The 2010s decade of #cars will go down in history as that weird period when automakers inexplicably thought that hand-eye-coordination screens and capacitive touch buttons were the best idea and just went too far.
Can you think of any other trend that swept through the auto industry that turned out to be very silly in the end, and nobody liked it anyway? I think the infurating return-to-center turn signals in BMW products from the 2000s qualifies—it solved a problem nobody had, and it was just worse than the tech it replaced.
“Volkswagen Bows to Touchscreen Criticism, Will Bring Back Physical Buttons”
Overall, I like my 2023 ID4 but there are a number of very annoying touchscreen & other controls in the car that I don't like.
One is that you can only lift the front windshield wipers to clean the windshield by accessing the wiper maintenance mode on the touch screen which puts the wiper arms in the vertical postion. WTF? 🤷♂️
You can also only activate the rear windshield wiper when the car is in reverse. No touch screen action required but WTF? 🤷♂️🤷♂️