I think the touch display within Teslas is dangerous. Physical buttons and dials allow me to feel around and not take my eyes off the road whereas a touch display has no such method of feedback. Sure it can vibrate and sure there are voice commands but now instead of pressing a button I know exists physically at location X I need to have a conversation with my car to turn heating on and off or I need to remember exactly where my finger is in space, and adjust that for UI updates and how the UI changes in each submenu.
What if the sun is really, really bright today well now it's harder to see the contents of the display and we're back to conversation mode.
Close your eyes and navigate through the settings menu on your phone down a few menus to toggle a setting. I doubt you could do that first time beyond only opening the settings app itself. Why do we allow this to be implemented in cars where your attention on the road defines whether or not (in a non-trivial amount of cases) you or someone else lives or dies.
What if the sun is really, really bright today well now it's harder to see the contents of the display and we're back to conversation mode.
Close your eyes and navigate through the settings menu on your phone down a few menus to toggle a setting. I doubt you could do that first time beyond only opening the settings app itself. Why do we allow this to be implemented in cars where your attention on the road defines whether or not (in a non-trivial amount of cases) you or someone else lives or dies.