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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars (www.theverge.com)
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For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, with most of the ire directed toward in-car infotainment.

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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This way it is easier to get customers into subscribed services

It's also just flat out cheaper to remove physical buttons. Remove a handful of buttons and you might save a few dollars per vehicle once you add up the cost of each switch, connector, and associated wiring. That's huge when you're producing tens of even hundreds of thousands of vehicles.

They tried getting away with this crap to save a few bucks without passing on the savings but you're seeing some pushback. VW, for instance, has stated they'll be migrating some functions back to physical buttons soon.