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That's what steering wheel controls are for.

• ddingus 7y ago
  Maybe. Depends on how modal they are. The primary issue with touch is the difficulty many people have using it by feel, and or "muscle memory" alone. Typically, one needs to identify the UX element desired, then touch, and then often verify the thing happened or select after that. Where it is modal, another whole layer of that interaction is needed, and or driver needs to retain more state info. "Which screen is it on, and is it currently available for me to use?" Steering wheel controls can be better, but many of those do toggle through various modes and the driver needs to glance at a small screen in the dash cluster. Doing that is generally superior to a touch only UX though. On many cars, low importance functions are clumped into these kinds of UX. Higher order things get their own control. I drive a lot of different cars. New, old, and Tesla. I thought the Tesla was spiffy, but did not think much of the big touch panel for reasons I have given here. My very favorite drives are on cars with great controls, and all of it working with dim interior lighting. Just enough to see what needs to be seen, the rest easily operated in a tactile way, night vision intact. This is not to say touch is not useful in cars. I think it can be and is. This is to say touch has a very long way to go before it begins to seriously challenge well designed buttons, levers and switches.