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How is this the most upvoted news? The US liberally just went to war with Venezuela.

Yesss, now i can replace my 2016 car that still had buttons! (Not that i will... or need to...)

Nature is healing?

Great. Now (for cars in general) remove all the unnecessary computerization nobody asked for and have a physical link between the throttle, transmission and the pedals. That's sure to help with all the sudden unintended acceleration issues that also cause drivers to be unable to shift into neutral because the computer (a single point failure) decided to shit the bed.

Touchscreens are so dangerous. Glad to see buttons coming back.

Who knew that would happen eventually after sensor screens failed time and time again at worst possible moments?

US and EU regulators announced last year that cars with touchscreen controls could get worse safety ratings.

Yeah that's the real reason they're moving back it's got nothing to do with the complaints from the customers because they've been ignoring those for over a decade. They just know that people won't buy their cars if it receives a substandard rating.

But hey I'll still take the win.

Good. Now put round headlights on your new electric vans. They'll look even better.

Time for some cassette futurism design!

Good. Hate touchscreens. It never fails that as you are going to touch something, you will hit a bump and miss. And that’s after taking your eyes off the road to find the button or dig through 4 menus to find it.

they have to

it'll be a law in china in the future

And EURO NCAP (who make safety ratings for cars) have said they'll stop giving 5 stars, if a car has no physical buttons for essential controls (i dont reclal what they believe is essential though)

I hope regulators pay attention to technology this time instead of just reacting.

My car has controls with no physical buttons but I can control with voice assistant. Technically that means I can do it without taking my eyes off the road but it’s physical buttons are much better

Buttons that you can use without looking at them, please.

On my old car, the temperature dial had a notch, and you could set it to heat/cold by whether it was left or right of center, now it's a free-spinning dial. Old fan control was a dial with stops, now it's two buttons with no tactile distinction. Old vent selector was a dial with stops and I knew the foot/defrost setting was one from the top and the foot/body setting was one from the bottom, now it's a single button same as the fan buttons that cycles through all the options. If I want to change anything, I have to wait until I'm at a red light or something so that I can look down and fiddle with it. I used to be able to do it all blind.

This seems like an obvious improvement and I kind of want everyone who thought otherwise to be banned from working in decision making roles.

That touchscreens in cars are still allowed while using a phone is not?

ID.BUZZ with physical buttons, 4WD and an upgraded heat pump (the current one is designed for ID.4 sized cars) would be the perfect car for me.

Hope our current car holds out long enough for those buttoned cars to arrive in the used car market.

Touchscreens in cars was a terrible development. The natural haptic feedback of physical buttons is a must, while operating a vehicle.

Excellent

Tangentially relevant. Anyone seen the new Microbus? It’s appalling. They gave it angry headlights like every other stupid generic car on the market. A hideous grille. And it’s got a giant flatscreen tv for all the interior controls. All in a 60s throwback vehicle specifically chosen for its nostalgic character. How do these people get promoted into decision making roles???

Now get rid of point-source quasar LED headlights. OK, we get it, science now allows us to get every electron in every atom to emit bazillions of photons every picosecond. That's nice. Like AI, we don't need it and no one asked for it.