I barely like using my phonebat times, why the fuck would I want a tablet to control my car?
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I don't want to drive a smart phone or have it drive me. Give me a car with a pre iPhone dash and Bluetooth and I am happy. I am hoping there will be a market for old people cars with real controls when the vehicles we drive now are no longer maintainable.
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My car is a 2024, and thank fuck it has knobs, dials, and switches.
Yup yup yup. I'll die before I buy a car with a touchscreen. I'll get my damn motorcycle license first.
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Why not have both
Agreed
Infiniti has the best center stack of all cars, and that's a hill I am willing to die on. Screens for navigation, radio, and car settings, with physical buttons along the sides for common HVAC, etc controls.
I haven't driven an Infiniti in about 20 years, but I like the fact they stuck with physical controls. I rented a new Peugeot that was 100% touch screen for everything including changing from park to drive. I almost got in a wreck because I had to reverse out of the way of a distracted driver pulling out of a parking spot and the touch screen wouldn't let me go from drive to reverse, i had to click park first. Anyways, I have a whole laundry list of modern smart features that make me feel like I'm fighting my vehicle instead of driving it. I'm not a fan of lane assist and auto off at traffic lights.
I recently had the brief joy of driving a small car without power steering. I never realized how much nicer the feedback is. You'd think that it would be a nightmare to park but the size of the car meant that it was still easier on the whole.
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Touch screens with a hundred options will become useful when we start traveling between star systems and need to react to things in minutes or even hours at time.
But when you're driving a vehicle that can run into things within milli seconds if you take your eyes off the road .... we're still going to need tactile buttons.
Funny enough, when I purchased my car, I went with the last model that didn't have the computer screen in it. The last of the actual BMW car cars. No iDrive or screen. I fuckin love that car.