Needing to take your eyes off the road to interact with safety-critical controls (defroster, for example) is a step backward. ...and there's a 100m cliff behin

Needing to take your eyes off the road to interact with safety-critical controls (defroster, for example) is a step backward. ...and there's a 100m cliff behind you with some innocent families playing at the bottom. It staggers me that regulators around the world didn't block the trend for highly interactive UIs and touchscreen controls for essential driving actions a long time ago. It's so obviously dangerous and unashamedly putting style before substance. It terrifies me that before long I'm going to have to give up my existing car in favour of something modern. I would be very happy to have the better performance and environmental characteristics of modern cars but I have yet to find one where the technology didn't actively deter me from buying.