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You mean like in every car made before 2015? Do new cars really have that many more features?

With the touchscreen cars I've rented or driven for work I'd have loved to have a little bluetooth or serial connected control cluster that sat near to hand with basic radio and climate controls. Something I could operate by feel. Seems like there are enough bad touchscreen consoles out there to make an aftermarket kit viable but maybe I underestimate the technical challenges.

Maybe I'll just keep driving my junkers until voice control gets good.



The top level Settings menu in my 2020 Ford Explorer doesn't even fit on one page. It would end up looking like the cockpit of a commercial airliner if everything had to be mapped out to a physical control.


Every action doesn’t need its own physical control. Knobs and buttons can be multipurpose. My mazda3 has touchscreen but it’s disabled because I can navigate and control everything with a single “command” knob.


This is the configuration I've got in my vehicle, which I feel strikes the right balance: https://www.ford.com/content/dam/vdm_ford/live/en_us/ford/na...




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