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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
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I will not buy any car that doesn’t have a proper range of clicky buttons for climate and radio controls. Plain and simple.
While driving, I don’t have time to scroll though a tablet like a clueless toddler, trying to figure out which submenu of a submenu they put the ventilated seat under
Not just europeans! I was done thinking touchscreens were cool in like, 2010. Bring back knobs and dials!
Physical buttons are faster to access, it's more accurate, and the result of having it on the screen behind a menu is increased time to find the function, which increases risk of traffic hazards.
So having basic controls on the screen should be illegal due to safety.
Voice controls and tactile buttons are not mutually exclusive
Voice controls also need 99%+ accuracy if manufacturers want drivers to trust and want them. My cars voice recognition system supports reading & sending of text messages based on the names in my phones address book. I have extended family whose last name is “Gay”. I have never been able to get the car to recognize commands like “text Bob Gay”.
Voice controls are notoriously buggy.
Tactile is not the issue, navigating menus are.