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Air temperature, circulation, direction, vents used, seat heat, radio presets, music source, navigating infotainment menus.

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My Volvo has heated seats behind a nested menu and I hate it. Tap the icon once, it brings up a submenu where you choose seat or wheel and then tap like 3 more times to set the actual temperature you want.

Beyond being annoying, it’s dangerous. I feel like there should some core functionality that should be illegal to not have a physical button.

It's especially sad for Volvo which used to pride itself on designing controls you could use with gloves on.

Aside from the usual complaints about safety, distraction, generally poor UI design and the rest, touchscreens are a huge fuck-you to people with peripheral nerve damage.

Also, it's 2023, nearly 2024, how are tablet displays still laggy by default?

Are any car companies actually pivoting back to tactile controls? Or is everyone going 100% in on screens?

Mazda. They've had dual input for a bit. Now they're fully going physical by ditching the touchscreen inputs. My Mazda 2020 technically has a touch screen, I've never had to actually use it

I loved Mazda for a long time, but the past few years they appear to believe they are a luxury brand, and are pricing accordingly. They are not a luxury brand, I’m on my third car purchase since owning a Mazda, and every single time I consider Mazda my reaction is “lol, no”

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