Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on April 30, 2024. One day in the early ’90s, my father came home with a used, champagne-toned Mercedes-Benz 300D four-door sedan ...

Why your car’s touch screen might kill you Architecture critic Mark Lamster’s plea for buttons, dials, knobs and switches. By Mark Lamster Architecture Critic Nov. 25, 2024 ...

Touch Screens Are Making Cars Worse. It’s Time to Bring Back Buttons and Knobs. Big touch screens look cool, but they’re difficult (and sometimes dangerous) to operate.

Hyundai Touchscreens and touch controls did offer certain enticements to automakers. They allow a great deal of functions to be controlled with a compact, changeable interface.

Because the touch screen domination of new car interiors has already gone too far. Tesla and other manufacturers devote much of their dashboard space to huge, center-mounted screens as big as 18.5 ...

Ruth Peebles, Los Angeles .. To the editor: When driving a Tesla, you do not have to use the touch-screen to control the wipers, headlights or air conditioner. Pressing the right-hand button on ...

Used car buyers are saying never say die. Switch It Up New cars come equipped with so many eye-catching gizmos, like large touch screen infotainment centers, that sitting in the driver seat can ...

Almost a quarter of US cars and trucks now have command displays spanning 11 inches or more, according to S&P Global Mobility; luxury brands are now normalizing a separate screen for passengers.

Fast forward a decade and touch screens are no longer a reluctant add-on or an innovative auto perk; they’re table stakes. Some 97% of new cars globally have at least one touch screen, and they ...

With its expanded touch screen, Tesla also spurred an arms race measured in inches. Ford stuffed a 15.5-inch screen into its Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning E.V.s.

Vehicles: BMW 2-Series, 3-Series, 4-Series, 5-Series, 7-Series, X5, X6, X7, iX Don’t mistake this as tangential praise for iDrive 8, because the changes made to iDrive 8.5—more hotkey ...