> “No touch screens” isn’t the optimal configuration
[citation needed]
> Instead, you want buttons on the dash or wheel for commonly used actions,
Yes.
> and you want less common actions on a nice large touch screen that also functions as a good GPS screen.
No, I don't want a whole second set of controls tossed willy nilly into an entirely different physical interface as a second-class afterthought because the designers were too lazy to figure out how to do it properly with physical controls. Consoles like the XB1 and PS4 have been doing fine building gamepad-driven user interfaces with a relatively limited number of physical inputs, no touchscreens required. Yes, including such things as scrollable menus. And given the disappointing nature of bespoke car GPSes (my current one can't even handle my home address!) I'd honestly prefer a proper phone dock replacing that touch screen, and allowing my car's manufacturer to focus on their core competencies, and allowing me a modular choice for handling what the car lacks.
> [...] gives significantly more customization opportunity than pure physical controls allow.
A power which is used for evil far more than it's used for good. "Customizable" and "bespoke and standardsless" are synonymous here. The limitations and constraints of physical controls are a wonderful forcing function that made for more consistent, tactile interfaces, that will inevitably be skipped over for some gauche touchscreen based vomit whenever there's an opportunity to do so.
> > “No touch screens” isn’t the optimal configuration
> [citation needed]
Yeah, citation isn't going to convince me. Touchscreens are still shit. Data can be tortured into submission depending on how and what metrics we look at. To be fully thorough is hard.
I'm seriously considering "downgrading" to a flip phone with real buttons and no touch screen, despite the absolute ubiquity of touch-driven mobile software - so no, that's a premature narrowing of my words. I disable touchscreens on laptops because 90% of my interaction with them has always been accidental, even ignoring the cases where an overheating panel "touches" itself. Even a touchpad demands a physical toggle, or palm-triggered touches while typing will make using the device an exercise in masochistic self-flagellation. My poor mom is constantly accidentally triggering her's cellphone's touch screen by the slightest brushes of a trailing finger, or simply by holding the edges of the phone.
Put another way: I dispute the existence of touch interfaces - at least for cars - that aren't poorly designed. I will admit the possibility of the existence of touch interfaces for other things that aren't poor, but I'm becoming ever more skeptical of that over time as well.
[citation needed]
> Instead, you want buttons on the dash or wheel for commonly used actions,
Yes.
> and you want less common actions on a nice large touch screen that also functions as a good GPS screen.
No, I don't want a whole second set of controls tossed willy nilly into an entirely different physical interface as a second-class afterthought because the designers were too lazy to figure out how to do it properly with physical controls. Consoles like the XB1 and PS4 have been doing fine building gamepad-driven user interfaces with a relatively limited number of physical inputs, no touchscreens required. Yes, including such things as scrollable menus. And given the disappointing nature of bespoke car GPSes (my current one can't even handle my home address!) I'd honestly prefer a proper phone dock replacing that touch screen, and allowing my car's manufacturer to focus on their core competencies, and allowing me a modular choice for handling what the car lacks.
> [...] gives significantly more customization opportunity than pure physical controls allow.
A power which is used for evil far more than it's used for good. "Customizable" and "bespoke and standardsless" are synonymous here. The limitations and constraints of physical controls are a wonderful forcing function that made for more consistent, tactile interfaces, that will inevitably be skipped over for some gauche touchscreen based vomit whenever there's an opportunity to do so.