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Car safety experts want to bring back buttons

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Too many screens? Why car safety experts want to bring back buttons​

BY MACK DEGEURIN | PUBLISHED MAR 5, 2024

Automakers must find a balance of high-tech screens and old school controls.

Over the past two decades, iPad-like touch screens in cars have evolved from a niche luxury to a pervasive industry standard. These often sleek, minimalist,
in-car control panels offer drivers a plethora of features and customization. However, previous studies suggest these every-day conveniences may come at
cost: more distracted drivers. Though regulators have spoken critically of in-car screens in the past, a prominent European safety monitor is going a step further
and requiring physical buttons and knobs for certain commonly used driving features if car makers want to receive a top safety score.

Starting in 2026, according to The Sunday Times, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) will only award its top safety rating to new vehicles that
use old-fashioned buttons and levers to activate indicators, hazard lights, and other critical driving features. The new requirements could force automakers who
use the safety rating as a selling point to reassess the amount of driving features they make accessible only through touch screens.

Though these voluntary standards are limited to Europe, a battle over buttons is gaining momentum among drivers in the US as well.

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Too many screens? Why car safety experts want to bring back buttons

Automakers must find a balance of high-tech screens and old school controls.
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I was at the Toyota dealership last Thurs for oil change and tire rotation and was looking at cars on the showroom floor, all had at least an 8” screen in the center of dash and just below eye level, seems very distracting to me
 
Sorry, I like the screens for Android Auto and listening to I Heart Radio, local talk stations stink, I Heart lets me stream stations from all over the US.
 
I use my phone BT for music connected to whatever car stereo I’m in, or just leave 1 earbud in, 2 earbuds I can’t hear what’s going on around me good enough
 
I'm of a different mindset while driving, I'll scroll through my pre-set stations, usually landing on conservative talk shows during the day, then whatever comes my way in the later night. Really enjoy just finding something different, a new viewpoint, or a different decade of music as long as it's pre-90s. ;)
The truth of the matter is having endless options usually pinpoints a person's tastes and they rarely move away from it......which is boooring.
 
cheveslakr said:
I'm of a different mindset while driving, I'll scroll through my pre-set stations, usually landing on conservative talk shows during the day, then whatever comes my way in the later night. Really enjoy just finding something different, a new viewpoint, or a different decade of music as long as it's pre-90s. ;)
The truth of the matter is having endless options usually pinpoints a person's tastes and they rarely move away from it......which is boooring.
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I am right there with you.
 
No shit, I just posted that 5 seconds before.....it's like you're looking over my shoulder.
 
I guess I'm the odd man out. I don't turn the radio on at all and I prefer no electronics at all. I prefer the quiet and getting lost in my own thoughts.
 
That is the only thing that I don't like about my '24 Mustang. I have to lean forward, its hard to navigate with too many sub menus, and glitches a lot. The night I drive it home, I almost froze to death because I could not figure out how to turn off the a/c!
 
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