I appreciate the response and I agree there's some misunderstanding related to the scope.
My question, admittedly probably not as clearly as I'd like it to be, was only related to safety of operating physical controls vs having to use touchscreen.
Any external circumstances notwithstanding.
The article and, I believe, our threat was about the safety factor physical/tactile vs primarily visual.
If I were forced to use touch screen then sure, better font is increasing safety, but at the same time replacing physical controls with touchscreen is drastically lowering the safety, which has been confirmed by a study and recently by NCAP removing stars for that.
For the purpose of this thread I don't care about external sources of information, they have NO impact on "are physical controls inside the car more conductive to safety than touchscreen?".
It was never a debate about improving necessary / mandatory interface, it was a debate whether they're a regression (from the safety perspective) or not.
Have a happy new year and don't worry, I'm attentive, I would never buy a car that forces me to take my eyes off the road to turn up the volume or temperature :)
My question, admittedly probably not as clearly as I'd like it to be, was only related to safety of operating physical controls vs having to use touchscreen.
Any external circumstances notwithstanding.
The article and, I believe, our threat was about the safety factor physical/tactile vs primarily visual.
If I were forced to use touch screen then sure, better font is increasing safety, but at the same time replacing physical controls with touchscreen is drastically lowering the safety, which has been confirmed by a study and recently by NCAP removing stars for that.
For the purpose of this thread I don't care about external sources of information, they have NO impact on "are physical controls inside the car more conductive to safety than touchscreen?".
It was never a debate about improving necessary / mandatory interface, it was a debate whether they're a regression (from the safety perspective) or not.
Have a happy new year and don't worry, I'm attentive, I would never buy a car that forces me to take my eyes off the road to turn up the volume or temperature :)