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Volkswagen brings back physical buttons for all new cars | Autocar (www.autocar.co.uk)
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Interior of ID 2All concept shows how Volkswagen is responding to criticism about over-reliance on touch controls

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[โ€“] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My 9-year-old Subaru has physical buttons. The car still ignores them when it's busy "thinking", like leaving the sound blasting at whatever volume setting it was on previously, but now with a different song, and there is nothing I can do to shut it the hell up for like a minute or two while it finishes booting up the OS.

Pro-Tip: "Physical buttons" don't have to mean a damn thing.:-(

Edit: I do like the tactile feel of them though.:-)

[โ€“] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

That's one of my 3 complaints about my wife's 2018 Subaru:

  1. It takes over a full second to shift into drive.
  2. The clock shows you the date but not the time when you start the car. You know, the one time I literally always look for the clock to see if I left on time? Yeah. No clock. (Seriously, what the what? Why?)
  3. You can't turn off the radio when the car is starting. (For a while I thought it was while reversing, but I think that's just because it's the first thing I do every time I turn in the car after my radio-listening wife has parked.)

Other than those three problems, it's a great car.

It has physical buttons in the steering wheel for most functions, so this article isn't very relevant. Sure, you can't adjust your front-back speaker volume while driving, but you shouldn't be doing anything that involved while driving anyway.