Kia and Hyundai. When I was doing my research, those two were the only brands that had physical buttons for everything related to driving. I only need the touchscreen for changing albums or settings.
This is what’s frustrating in that car designers don’t understand most people don’t necessarily hate big screens, it’s putting essential controls in those screens. I’m a fan of big touchscreens myself but I want them to be strictly for infotainment purposes only. Any essential component should still be knobs, dials, and switches.
Teala gets a lot of flack for this (and rightfully so earlier on) but nowadays the only thing you cant do from the wheel is climate control, and turning your fog lights on.
Climate control is automatic though and its pretty much set and forget, so that leaves fog lights, if your car comes with them.
And none of these important controls (temp, defog, defrost, fog lights) are behind touch screen menus if configured properly.
If you want to argue that screens are distracting because you can do so much on them that’s one thing, but climate control being on the screen isn’t the cause of some epidemic that is leading Tesla to be at the forefront if that’s the case, it’s just not that distracting, and you can do everything else but fog lights without it, and a lot of Tesla’s don’t even come with fog lights.
What is distracting while driving is dealing with the navigation system if you want to change something, but that’s the same in any car, whether you use your phone or the screen, with voice or without. Maybe people shouldn’t be fussing with that while driving and pull over or turn it off and rely on road signs if something changes if you don’t have a passenger to put the new info in.
Kia and Hyundai. When I was doing my research, those two were the only brands that had physical buttons for everything related to driving. I only need the touchscreen for changing albums or settings.
This is what’s frustrating in that car designers don’t understand most people don’t necessarily hate big screens, it’s putting essential controls in those screens. I’m a fan of big touchscreens myself but I want them to be strictly for infotainment purposes only. Any essential component should still be knobs, dials, and switches.
Teala gets a lot of flack for this (and rightfully so earlier on) but nowadays the only thing you cant do from the wheel is climate control, and turning your fog lights on.
Climate control is automatic though and its pretty much set and forget, so that leaves fog lights, if your car comes with them.
And none of these important controls (temp, defog, defrost, fog lights) are behind touch screen menus if configured properly.
Teslas led all manufacturers for frontal collisions. The screen is distracting and dangerous.
If you want to argue that screens are distracting because you can do so much on them that’s one thing, but climate control being on the screen isn’t the cause of some epidemic that is leading Tesla to be at the forefront if that’s the case, it’s just not that distracting, and you can do everything else but fog lights without it, and a lot of Tesla’s don’t even come with fog lights.
What is distracting while driving is dealing with the navigation system if you want to change something, but that’s the same in any car, whether you use your phone or the screen, with voice or without. Maybe people shouldn’t be fussing with that while driving and pull over or turn it off and rely on road signs if something changes if you don’t have a passenger to put the new info in.