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I'm surprised to see no mention of haptic feedback. I've always thought Apple's Force Touch was a gimmick on a phone, but in a car it could be very useful on a touch screen like what Teslas have. Imagine being able to run your finger over the screen to "feel" the climate control touch area then "hard press" it to activate.

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Solved problem: just use a physical control.

Haptic feedback is like art imitating life.

Looks good, but it's utility value is equal to or less than landfill.

The problem is that you wouldn’t be able to feel the haptic on a shaky car (running on a highway).

That doesn't discount it from being useful in most scenarios, though.

"Car on road and in motion" seems to cover most scenarios where operating the controls of a car would be something you'd want to do.

I drive a Tesla. I'm speaking first hand that this would be a useful feature. Most of my driving is not on a gravel road that's bumping so much I can't feel anything; it's on smooth surface streets and highways where a little vibration from the screen would be beneficial.

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