I’ll never buy a car with a touch screen, and luckily I don’t have to.
We (in Europe) are now at the high water mark for touch screens. The EURO NCAP have changed their rules so cars with complicated touch screen controls get a lower safety rating. ADAC (German automobile club) have changed their rating system to penalize them, too.
Those are important measurements for normie car buyers, so manufacturers will adapt to them.
First manufacturers are already offering cars without screens again for 2026 (Dacia, Renault, Citroen, Fiat, Opel).I could replace that stereo system with a Phillips head screwdriver
Say what you will about the Russians, they do make be best car interiors
Disagree, I would hate that center spedometer.
Well, 0 to 100 kph is approximately 5 business days so you wouldn’t ever look at it anyway 😁
I don’t think I understand this. What does “Press Button & Turn” mean?
It’s a parking brake/emergency brake/handbrake or whatever you’d call it. You pull it straight out of the dash to set it. To release it there is a small button on the back you have to hold, while turning the handle clockwise about 90° to release the brake.
This vehicle is newer than 1986. How do I know? Because dear old Dad had a 1986 Isuzu P’up, and it had a most similar parking brake, except it didn’t have the little button - you could just turn the handle. This is a problem when you leave your three year old in the truck unattended, and the three year old starts turning things. It’s even more fun when your other, older child (me) comes out to find your truck has rolled down the driveway into the car across the street.
Later vehicles added the safety button, making it “push button and turn”.
If I’m being honest, that’s a relatively complex radio.
Miss those days. Really just need Bluetooth to the radio as my only fancy option.
And heated seats.
But that’s all.
I remember when my car didn’t have a giant ipad that tries to talk to me, miss it too.
Hmmm… Having physical buttons for car controls is good, but you’re not taking away my creature comforts. Adjusting the temperature and fan speed 20 times in a drive? Nah, give me a thermostat. Cold butt? I think not. Gloves? Nah, heat my steering wheel. And once you get off of car controls, touch screen is fine and I really like Android Auto.
I actually really like how my Bolt EV does it. The only thing that’s on screen that shouldn’t be is the seat heater controls.
We have a fully loaded 2017 Bolt, all the features, nothing left out; there are three “placeholders” for buttons on the dash that have no function, but if you put the car into reverse before turning on the seat heaters you have to wait until you put it into drive before you can turn them on. This does not make sense to me.
Yeah, it doesn’t. I have mine set to auto so they’re on even if I forget but I agree.
You actually like android auto? I find annoying the number of touches I need to go through to get to what I want. Unfortunately my car stereo is even worse about that if I don’t use android auto.
You know you can eliminate a bunch of the stuff, right?
In settings you can customize your screen. It’s incredibly stupid that “snacks” is even active as default.
Also, WAZE, now has verbal reports. So, you can just activate your steering wheel Mic button.
I like it because I get all the same apps with all the same info I get on my phone, just on the car screen with voice controls
I just wish modern cars would do what you want. I want to set a temperature and a fan speed. Modern cars have some kind of hidden function. that you can’t use.
Also touchscreens are pretty unsafe.
New cars gonna come with used zyns trays and air pod chargers instead of ashtrays and cigarette lighters.
How fast do you want it, how hot do you want it, where do you want it
now they’re like
And with software involved
you can turn off the passenger airbag if you don’t like them
I know you’re joking, but this is for when you have a reboarder type baby car seat in the passenger seat, in that case the airbag must be deactivated
No airbag if you ain’t chipping in for gas!
3 cars ago, which is probably 15-20 years ago, I had a car with a climate control thing that I never had to touch. It was set to comfort or something, warms me up when it’s cold, cools me when it’s too warm, turns on AC or heater as needed. Even my friends brand new car can’t seem to do that.
I remember being a freshman in high school (1999) and a friend of mine had an aftermarket pioneer stereo head unit in his car that had the fold up touchscreen and all it did was let you adjust the sound quality and it had a very 90’s screensaver mod with dolphins, fighter jets, and a volcano. I thought at the time that was the most technologically advanced thing to ever be capable, oh how times have changed…
In 2026 that’s way to much tech for me, if I need to drag out my OBD2 code reader it won’t be a car I’ll drive
