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[โ€“] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 209 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Touchscreens were never popular with customers. Manufacturers kept cramming touchscreens in cars and using them to control everything becuase they were being stupid with new tech.

Edit: I guess I should have been clearer. I was talking about as a replacement for tactile controlls in a car like the article is talking about. Reverse cameras and other things that are good to have a touch screen for make perfect sense but using your touch screen to control your Air conditioning in a way that you have to divert your attention from the road to operate sliders and buttons on a touch screen is dumb as hell.

[โ€“] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

A screen is legally required for the backup camera in the US since 2016.

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