Producers of socket cars Key-deep control elements in the menu on the touch screen-sending drivers to bring eyes, and not focusing on the road forward-it can have next year the safety assessments outside the USA.
From January, the European EURONCAP test organization or a novel car evaluation program will encourage the car manufacturer to fit physical, simple -to -use and tactile inspections to achieve the highest safety ratings. “Manufacturers are noticed,” said Matthew Avery, director of euroncap strategic development: “They must restore the buttons.”
Drivers, desires New Euroncap tipsHe should not move, stab or switch during movement. Instead, the basic control elements – such as wipers, indicators and threat lamps – were to be activated with analogue, not digital means.
Driving is one of the most cerebral difficult things that people manage Regularly-but in recent years, producers have been almost addicted to cockpits with a touch screen, which, although pleasant for people who want a minimalist design, are devoid of physical feedback, and thus require visual interaction, sometimes at the exact moment when the eyes should be determined on the road.
Smatter producers slowly admits that some knowledgeable screens are stupid. Last month, the head of Volkswagen Design Andreas Mindt said that the novel generation models from the German car manufacturer will receive physical buttons for volume, seating heating, fan control and threat lights. This change will apply “in every car that we are doing from now on”, Mindt customs British Car Magazine Autocar.
Recognition of Snafus with a touch screen by its predecessors – in 2019, VW described “Digital” Golf MK8 as “intuitive to act” and “progressive” when it was not – he did not say: “We will never make this mistake again … This is not a phone, this is a car.”
Despite this, “the lack of physical switchgear is a shame” is now a common chorus in automotive reviews, including Wired. However, a confined, but growing number of other manufacturers withdraws digital steps to a larger or lesser degree. The latest version SUV CROSSOVER CX-60 Mazda It has a 12.3-inch information and entertainment screen, but there is still a physical switchgear for operating the radiator, air and heated/cooled seats. Although it is still sensitive to touch, the Mazda screen limits what you can earn depending on the application used and whether you are in motion. There is also a real click.
But many other manufacturers store the touch screen/slider/Haptic/LLM Doohickeys. Ninety -seven percent of novel cars issued after 2023 contains at least one screen, considers the global mobility of S&P. However, studies last year by Great Britain What car? The magazine stated that the huge majority of drivers prefer shields and switches from touch screens. A study conducted by 1428 drivers showed that 89 percent preferred physical buttons.
It seems that drivers would prefer to put gloves for driving in a storage compartment, which opens with a satisfactory IRL production on a glorious and clicking clasp instead of diving in a digital submenus. Indeed, there are several tutorials on YouTube about the opening of Tesla storage. “Above all,” One starts“Will you click this car icon to access the menu settings, and from now on you will go to control, and here is the option of opening the box to gloves.” How Ronald Reagan wrote“If you explain, you lose.”
Reverse of voice control
Mass psychosis adapted to digital cockpits is partly explained by the economy – double touch screens are cheaper to fit than buttons and their switchgear – but “there is also a natural tendency [among designers] That everything would be more complex than they should, “says Steven Kyffin, a former dean of design and a prosecutor at Northumbria University in Great Britain Sir Jonny Ive obsessively buttons).
“Creating and then controlling the complexity is a sign of human power,” says Kyffin. “Some people desperate desperately have the most brilliant, the most minimalist, the most postmodern car, even if you drive because of all entertainment.”