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VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough
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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
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I'm very glad, the lack of buttons are a safety hazard... Looking at these stupid TESLA cars especially... You can't even adjust the AC without messing with the touchscreen, which means your eyes are not on the road...
Still not going to own a car, but at least it will be slightly safer by bringing back physical buttons, so hurray for small victories.
For a while now I've been thinking about idea where flexible display can be combined with some sort of mechanism where a button on the display can be shown and underneath display in same place it would raise the display slightly. Just enough to be tactile and easy to find without looking. We might see these at some point as stars seem to be aligning that way.
They've been working on that for a while now. It looks like those stars are not aligning anytime soon.
https://www.howtogeek.com/894140/when-will-we-get-tactile-touch-screens/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/feedback-tactile-heptic-touch-fujitsu,26244.html
Cool. I mean it's obvious that's going to happen at some point.