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Read the article: They are replacing touch-screens with a non-touch screen and a touchpad controller thing. They are not doing the sensible thing and moving b
by drewg123 5y ago
Read the article: They are replacing touch-screens with a non-touch screen and a touchpad controller thing. They are not doing the sensible thing and moving back to analog controls!
- stephencanon 5y agoBMW is quite good about this; they have physical controls for almost everything, and voice controls for the rest. Our 2018 3-series wagon has a touch screen, but you don’t have to use it ever for normal driving functions.
- eganist 5y agoThey're not replacing anything; they're simply not installing the required components to make touch screens work. The idrive module has been in every bmw with an infotainment system since the 745i in 2003; a touchpad was slowly introduced to the center control wheel about a decade later. The one in the video was also present in my 2014 model. It works well; they haven't had much of a reason to change it. The touchscreen was intended as an added input method.
- drewg123 5y agoThanks for the clarification. The impression that I had from the headline, and what seems like a large percentage of others had, is that they are doing away with modern infotainment and going back to 90s style analog controls, which they are not. I think this is unfortunate. It would be nice to have a new, modern retro performance sedan with totally analog controls. I think car controls were the best in the mid-late 90s, when there were levers and switches and dials for everything, and very few computers. And I say this as a long-time Tesla (X) owner. The Tesla climate control never fails to piss me off. Its amazingly hard to get it to just blow outside air at me. In an older car, nothing would change the fan speed or enable/disable recirc if I had the audacity to park my car overnight.