Volkswagen is bringing buttons back.
Car designers have increasingly moved to deploy touchscreen dashboards, but the German giant says the trend had gone too far.
It is one of a number of carmakers shifting back to physical buttons, which are widely seen as safer and more popular with drivers: Korean firm Hyundai and China’s MG have both vowed to do the same.
The reversal does not mean a dumbing-down, however: A review of the electric Genesis called it “packed full of technology” such as a fingerprint reader and facial recognition, “yet it also has lots of physical controls.”
Speaking to Autocar, Volkswagen’s design chief put it simply, “It’s not a phone: it’s a car.”
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