There is plenty of room on a car's dashboard to separate the vital, tactile, muscle memory UI from the informative, visual, reconfigurable, and essentially opti

There is plenty of room on a car's dashboard to separate the vital, tactile, muscle memory UI from the informative, visual, reconfigurable, and essentially optional UI. Touchscreen craze is a suboptimal choice not out of some serious constraint. What the article points at is just another manifestation of market arrangements (the relative power of manufacturers versus the information and power of consumers) that are slow to generate the counterwailing forces needed to correct course. A decade of excess accidents here, a decade of screen addiction there and pretty soon you talk about serious negative impact.