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haha, the reason I've chosen an Enyaq over the ID.5. Finally they got it.

I drive a VW Tiguan 3 and desperately miss some of the logical layout of Tiguan 2 controls. The trade-off between marketable digital aesthetics and intuitive ergonomics and haptics should never distract drivers from driving safely, putting car occupants and pedestrians at risk!

It's illegal here in the UK to use your phone for calls/messages etc except for hands free via Bluetooth etc. Meanwhile, the OEMs are turning the car itself into...a phone

Fucking finally. The UX needed for car requires tactile ergonomics. It’s so obvious for anyone who has actually, you know, driven a car.

1980's GM cars were ahead of their time. Especially Pontiacs. Buttons everywhere.

I love buttons!!

Good. Touch screens on road vehicles—on ANY vehicles—are inherently DANGEROUS. Every vehicle should have physical buttons, switches and/or dials for ALL functions.

Can anyone explain why their "entry-level EV" has a massive panoramic sun roof? I want EVs to be more affordable and manufacturers keep pumping them with expensive and heavy luxury features that just drive up the initial cost and the cost of repairs. Please just jam a battery in a Jetta

Flatscreens suck because they aren't tactile in the least - require you to take your eyes off the road for any function. I can find a knob or a button without looking - much safer.

Cool, now stop locking horsepower behind a subscription

Actual drivers have been suggesting this ever since the buttons disappeared. Nice to see another car manufacturer use their own cars.

Totally agree, thought this from the beginning. Silly idea.

If you don't, he'll spawn a dumpster and call it a truck.

I’ve had my Model Y for three years now and I still enjoy driving it just as much as I did on the first day. In everyday life, I don’t need the settings on the screen at all. And yes, I wish someone else were the CEO.

Clicked to see if somebody had already mentioned hundai /kia. We bought a new car in June and on top of our list of must haves were physical buttons. Tried several car brands, but none could compete with the ioniq 5.

I explicitly bought my Kia EV as it had buttons for everything. It was one of the top requirements when we were car shopping.

One thing I do with is that they'd add more things as available for the two programmable buttons.

I need to scroll though 5 menus and two adds to turn on my blinker

Some Toyota EVs don’t even have them 🙃

It's a perfect balance also on the 2025 Kia EV6. Buttons (most on the steering wheel) and handles Also get up on the centre screen which position lights and vipers are when using the handles. No need to use the screen when driving.

Thank the Prophets! Cars are not Starfleet ships. People need tactile, easily-discernable-while-not-looking controls to use while driving. I have zero interest in a car where the effing radio/climate control/defrost/seat controls are all in a menu on a screen! Hope other automakers follow suit!

I like the screen. I like the voice control.

I'm interested in Mazda's media system, with a small-ish wide screen that has touch but is entirely navigable with a knob down by the driver's center console. Im also interested in the Slate. Cut it all out to reduce the cost entirely.

I prefer tactile buttons every day of the week and twice on Sundays, but buttons under a silicone know share the „blind use“ issue with touch screens, so I‘m not sure if it‘s a progress over touch.

Touch screens can stay, BUT anything you touch while driving should be a physical button. Stuff like entering an address was fucking awful before touchscreens. I'm glad new cars just have an on screen keyboard instead of making you use what's essentially a D-Pad to type.

I second that motion !

We went through this in the US military aviation industry in the late 80s. Scrolling through menus sucks for many functions.

Buttons are safer

That many buttons is anxiety inducing.

Way to many buttons, especially on the steering wheel. A few buttons for important functions needed while driving is OK. But buttons for features that are rarely used are just confusing.

We like knobs too.

Is that a pretend cassette??

If only BMW would do the same! Honestly, having to search on a digital display/ screen for climate system, audio, communications, and other controls—with no tactile feedback, mind you—while driving, is not only infuriating, but downright dangerous.

Land Rover/Range Rover been doing buttons for years

I'd have thought the preference for buttons (and knobs) would be so you don't have to take your eyes off the road. Dozens of buttons in a panel doesn't achieve that.

Button, button, who's got the button?

YES! It's about the UX. Drivers want buttons you can press with "muscle memory" while driving, not swiping down a menu tree on a touch screen. Leave that cheap gimmick to Elon.

Oh good. Touchscreens don't like my fingers.

Door handles 😹

Common sense wins, yay. Now we need to tackle "driver safety" features. My modern work car braked automatically twice on my commute today. It hallucinated and used flashing red lights to take my eyes off the road! It thinks time since ignition > road. It also has dangerous LED headlights. FFS.

Accessible, clearly labeled buttons are a great idea for the US’s aging population. Human factors engineers have established that older users have trouble twisting small dials.

Also it should be in for 2026: integrated infotainment screen. Out: Giant screen stuck onto the dashboard.

And for a particular one: more screen behind steering wheel, and less glass roof, and more latch on glove box, and more manual air vents, and less hot air pumped to the back seat unless AC is set <10F of ambient, and more steering wheel stalks for common controls, and much less Elmo as CEO.

Good choice, this will make driving safer. No buttons was a big turn-off for me, when considering a VW. I love all the buttons on my 2023 Honda Civic.

#SoManyButtons #ButtonOverload

My BMW i3s from 2021 calls this good news, it also has buttons for most things and lacks a touchscreen.

All for buttons and knobs that make sense and placed appropriately. We have a 2018 Lexus with a bunch of buttons tucked away on the door side of the wheel and I can never tell which one to press because I can’t see them.

It feels a little like malicious compliance - "they said they wanted buttons? Ok, here are some buttons." TBQH I am disappointed that this design is the go-forward design. The glued-on tablet designs feel so lazy and cheap. Per-car, it would be ok. As a design standard, it's terrible.

… But of course you can’t use that to clear the popups. Because unless you’re going through the dashboard menus, and need to OK a selection on them, the OK button has the sole function of toggling the speedometer between mph and kmph. …

I love my buttons!

Gmc and ford 2025 trucks have buttons with screens evs need to follow dont want a menu for climate control or traction control

Buttons and knobs rule. Real tactile feedback.

Like on clothes?

I love my touch screen, I know where everything is and can access without even looking.

Yeah, buttons are great. But what I really want are rows and rows of toggle switches.

Theres barely a scenerio i can think of where id rather take my eyes off the road to look at a touch screen so i touch it the right way over simply feeling a button. Its safer and easier and tbh its insane ppl even accepted the former

And rightly so. The UX developed to remove buttons has been terrible (Tesla models mainly).

Good !

Didn't the EU just legislate that essential functions must have physical buttons? Or did I imagine that?

Give me the interior and dashboard of a 1960’s Italian car any day. Lancia , Ferrari or Alfa…

The new polo looks like a return to form for VW. The ID series were flawed at birth. They drove well but were overly heavy and chunky and the inside design, both industrial and UX design, were bad.

Yes and a nice interior these to overly boring futuristic interiors suck

I do support this idea. Fumbling through touchscreen menus when trying to find the window demist option whilst on the move is much less good than "press the tactile button".

My single largest complaint I have after two years with my Ford Lightning is changing the temperature in the cabin. Bring back the knobs!

Hopefully- they are quality buttons and don't have that glossy plastic feel to them

Could they also get rid of the ‘iPad stuck to the dashboard with some Blu-Tac’ design please.

Excellent

Buttons are great but when they're all so close and feel exactly the same they're still really hard to use

I love my wife's ID3 (I also love my wife, btw), but my biggest bugbear with it (the car, not the wife) is the lack of physical buttons.

Is that a cassette tape deck?

GOOD !

Finally a car with buttons and a proper instrument cluster.

Now fix the awful software and touchscreen interface 💩

FRIENDSHIP ENDED with SCREEN Now BUTTONS are my BEST FRIEND