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I don't like that all the new cars have touchscreens these days. Are there any with proper old-fashioned buttons?
The Slate truck comes close, that's about it. I would love an EV, but I just refuse to accept a 55 inch flat screen tv in front of me while driving.
It's expensive to convert, but if I had the money I would be picking up something like a 2007 Rav4 with a thrown rod and making it electric.
Just buy old cars and keep the retrofit shops in business. The billionaires refuse to make cars we want. Youll be forced to have everything you dont want.
Very expensive, putting new money into and old car on a custom build that is unknown for reliability.
The Slate Truck has no infotainment system at all, it's just a bare dashboard with buttons.
The Slate truck doesn't exist yet, at least not as a street legal mass produced vehicle. They're aiming for a late 2026 launch, but they're not there yet.
It'll have a backup screen, its the law.
Ah, true. That I wouldn't mind though, those are handy.
Kia and Hyundai. When I was doing my research, those two were the only brands that had physical buttons for everything related to driving. I only need the touchscreen for changing albums or settings.
Teala gets a lot of flack for this (and rightfully so earlier on) but nowadays the only thing you cant do from the wheel is climate control, and turning your fog lights on.
Climate control is automatic though and its pretty much set and forget, so that leaves fog lights, if your car comes with them.
And none of the important controls (temp, defog, defrost, fog lights) are behind touch screen menus if configured properly.
Teslas led all manufacturers for frontal collisions. The screen is distracting and dangerous.
If you want to argue that screens are distracting because you can do so much on them that's one thing, but climate control being on the screen isn't the cause of some epidemic that is leading Tesla to be at the forefront if that's the case, it's just not that distracting, and you can do everything else but fog lights without it, and a lot of Tesla's don't even come with fog lights.
What is distracting while driving is dealing with the navigation system if you want to change something, but that's the same in any car, whether you use your phone or the screen, with voice or without. Maybe people shouldn't be fussing with that while driving and pull over or turn it off and rely on road signs if something changes.
This is what’s frustrating in that car designers don’t understand most people don’t necessarily hate big screens, it’s putting essential controls in those screens. I’m a fan of big touchscreens myself but I want them to be strictly for infotainment purposes only. Any essential component should still be knobs, dials, and switches.