I think the biggest thing about car touchscreens is that they have historically sucked. They have always been a place to do vendor locking or a geewhiz upgrade. I don't think the touch screen approach is inherently flawed but in a world where you build a working car without one and then add it as an extra trim feature the experience is always going to be bad.
I actually think the Tesla touchscreen approach works fairly well especially when coupled with the level of automation they tie into it. Turning your wipers on by touch screen inst great, but if you just automate turning on the wipers as needed it doesn't matter.
It also eliminates the where is x control game you end up playing in some cars. You either find it via the UI or open the manual in the same place.
I actually agree. And there’s a secondary benefit: by requiring the touchscreen for some controls like wipers, it means they have to, by law, fix the touchscreen and infotainment computer if it fails early. So if your infotainment computer runs out of write cycles, you can get it fixed for free.
I actually think the Tesla touchscreen approach works fairly well especially when coupled with the level of automation they tie into it. Turning your wipers on by touch screen inst great, but if you just automate turning on the wipers as needed it doesn't matter.
It also eliminates the where is x control game you end up playing in some cars. You either find it via the UI or open the manual in the same place.