The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Distracting Mess

If a designer came to me with a bunch of screens, touch pads, or voice-activated haptic-palm-pad gesture controls, I’d trigger a trapdoor that caused the offender to plummet down into the driver’s seat of a Cadillac fitted with the first version of the CUE system—which incorporated a motion sensor that would actually change the screen as your finger approached it. Give me a screen, sure, but also give me some buttons and knobs, stuff I don’t have to look at while I’m driving 70 mph. Why, I remember the early 2000s, when BMW first introduced iDrive, which controlled a dash screen via a central knob and a few menu buttons.

Source: www.popularmechanics.com