Hyundai rethinks touchscreens - buttons making a comeback Comments

• chavv
• p7L
• 12 Nov 2024

Anonymous, 12 Nov 2024Physical buttons can also be frustrating to locate and hence, distracting while driving. Which... morevoice control?
I still remember an old joke, when experimenting with voice commands on windows many years ago
"Format C slash f slash u"

The technology for 100% correct voice commands is simply not here yet

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• Anonymous
• rK8
• 12 Nov 2024

Physical buttons can also be frustrating to locate and hence, distracting while driving. Which is why voice controls are better. Buttons also add to the initial cost and repair cost. Physical buttons are more preferred by existing drivers of cars with buttons, if survey demographic is drivers of touchscreens or new drivers, the preference ratio is very different.

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• Anonymous
• mTy
• 11 Nov 2024

The reason why all touch interfaces were pushed is simply that they are cheaper to make. Less safe, because they require the driver to take attention away from the road for longer, but the manufacturer takes the profits and the rest of us pay the cost.

The solution is either regulation (through requirements or by giving poor safety ratings to touch-only vehicles) or enough people refusing to buy cars like that - which works only as long other offer an alternative. So kudos to Hyundai for doing this.

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• Anonymous
• kmq
• 11 Nov 2024

While Hyundai is at it, hope we do not have to wait another generation to also bring back great big wide mirrors, with minimal blind-spots and much less variation in window-tints between the windshield vs. the passenger-side-rear-glass. NHSTA needs to get up to speed on the dangers of tinted glass fashion, misleading camera pseudo-tech, and ever shrinking aperture from gigantic pillars.

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