How Safe Are Touch Screens In Cars Like Tesla

Personally, I don’t like all touchscreen. I still like the tactile feel of buttons. Easier when I’m driving

80s and 90s analog dials and buttons are where it's at

I'm a millennial and a tech guy - and I DETEST touch screens in cars. Distracting, no haptic feedback, impossible to use without taking eyes off the road, simple commands buried in menus, and a single point of failure for many controls if the screen stops working. When a change is functionally worse than what was used before, it's not "progress" - it's "regression".

The best thing about buttons is, it doesn't go elsewhere after use. Its still there. So you only have to memorize it's position and functions, and you even can use it in the night without disturbing your co passengers.

This is why I love my Mazda 6. You control everything from a knob close to the gear shift. The touchscreen is disabled once the car is in motion. Best of both worlds.

Ironically, touchscreen relies more on your vision than your touch. They're only good for when your vision is completely free.

Still crazy that after years of telling people to stop texting while driving literally every car company decided to start putting giant tablets in their vehicles.

Tactile feedback > touch screens. With touch screens, you have to look and aim with your finger while driving to make sure you're hitting the right button. And even if you hit the right button, it still might not respond, and you have to hit it again, and you have to keep looking at the screen to make sure it responded and the right button was pushed.

Some companies like Honda and Mitsubishi have experimented with making more functions touchscreen-based very early on, but they have reverted back to physical buttons for their newest vehicles. Good on them for going against this trend. It took some dissatisfaction for them to revert, but it shows that they learned from their mistakes unlike the Koreans or VW. Going forward, I hope that they continue using physical buttons despite whatever partnership Honda has with GM and Sony or whatever partnership Mitsubishi has with the RNM Alliance.

4:55 Absolutely wild that driving while drunk or stoned is better for your reaction time than driving with a touch screen in your car.

Touch screens are annoying in general. There’s a reason game consoles still use tactile controllers, even the ones WITH touch screens. It’s a lot more intuitive to know by feeling where something is rather than seeing where something is.

Blue and White lighting of Touchscreens impairs your night vision. Cockpits intentionally use Red lighting and as dim as possible. Physical knobs, for use while driving, are superior interfaces.

Buttons are safer, especially at night. I almost got into an accident because of the screen. Also some buttons are too much alike where they need to be different feel wise.

I think touch screens in cars is fine, but there should be some controls with physical buttons and knobs. Personally, I think that climate control and radio volume control should be controlled with physical buttons and knobs.

Real physical button / knob is much easier to use for a specific function.

I’m not that old and I hate touch screens. I’ll keep my old cars as long as possible

I work with so many digital screens each day. When I get in my car to go home, all I want to see is analog gauges.

Touch screens are OK for bluetooth pairing, navigation, and many other things, but anything that is expected to be adjusted while driving needs to have physical controls

I think touch screens for non-important stuff like radio or gps is fine, but for necessary functions of the car, like the rear defroster, it should be illegal to have them controlled by touch screen only. I could definitely see accidents happen because some update changed a vital function of the car and someone was too rushed to learn where the new location for it was. I hate whenever I have to drive my stepdad's tesla because I have to spend so much time just getting the AC and heated seats to where I want it, while it was a non issue with any other car I've driven.

Very soon, we need to pay $50 a months in order to use different functions in a car