The best one in this series:

"So, really, you see, ads taking over the entire display is a safety feature, Mr. Congressman."

I despise the touch screen in one of our cars, and it's nothing like the tablet you see in most.

I have to look at the damn screen to increase heat temp even slightly.

I have a car from ‘03 and the only digital displays are my seven-segment odometer and double-DIN radio with a two-line text display. You can do everything without ever taking your eyes off the road.

This is a topic that keeps coming up, but I absolutely do not want any of the interior design decisions made in the last 15 years.

I’d love to see the accident data right before and after touch screen normalization in vehicles.

Meanwhile, there's me:

Third-person camera activated.

In my car the touchscreen only works if you are going under 20 MPH. Otherwise you have to use the buttons.

There's been so many of these in recent years.

• Seats being outlawed from electric scooters in a lot of countries, suggesting it's somehow safer to drive standing up trying to maintain your own balance than sitting down. I can guarantee you there have been deaths that could have been spared because of this. - Wait, I'm actually wrong - You can use seats, they just have to be used on the much more dangerous self-balancing unicycle ones.

• Ebikes that are capped at 25km/h but aren't legal because they don't have pedals even though pedal bycicles can easily go faster, have slower reaction time when the byciclist has to build up speed again after a full stop, and a byciclist is generally just more exhausted from pedaling while also having to be aware of the road.

• A lot of countries go after car cameras because GDPR and "recording public spaces", all the while not just permitting companies like Tesla to have them, but even shamelessly subpoena the evidence because it literally could have recorded crimes not related to it thus making their rationale in all other cases fall apart.

• Prohibiting phones actually make sense because of how people abuse the privilege, but replacing all controls with a touch screen with absolutely no tactile sense or feedback in a way that people literally have to look away from the road instead of being able to hold the phone while looking at the road could is way worse. And because these are a lot of the controls for the car itself, people won't just be able to ignore it.

It all starts making a lot more sense when you begin to realize a lot of it is to protect traditional/big money transportation markets and industries. Laws on ebikes and escooters add bureacracy that safeguards existing stocks and puts a brake on innovations that were set to come out. It it's an innovation like solar panels on a car or bus, most of the consumer level stuff has gone bankrupt after it crashed right into the bureaucratic wall protecting traditional transportation markets and industries, but when it comes to features that benefit them due to cost savings and features that they can derive a premium on as a luxury because they realize the demand is there, their lobbyists help fast track them all through the red tape.

Car manufacturers getting most if not all of their supplies from China? A-ok. Consumers getting their cars from China? Unacceptable, it will break our economy, because apparently we have no problem allowing it to depend on private companies.

It's absolutely the worst. I have one in my car and I don't really use it at all and when I do I gotta like stable my hand in order to touch the right spots it's awful. I am glad the industry is going back to buttons.

Except Mazda. They have a dial design that is fantastic to use. However they are doubling down on the touch screen in new designs. It makes no sense. They say there is a market for it but I'm not sure where they are getting their market days from....

Just buy a bigger car to make up for crash safety.

Why is there telegram on car infotainment

Aren't videos blocked while driving?

In my old car i also had to look at the controls to adjust most things. Physical controls are admittedly easier to hit but apart from that, the difference isn't that huge. Plus, my old car (although was a pretty simple model) still had far too many buttons and there were quite a few where I never figured out what they're for.