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Buttons in old Range Rover (L322) was designed to use in winter gloves. Imagine how good they are.


Same for Volvos back in the day.

And the new generation are all using touchscreens which need you you take eyes off the road to find the fan settings (return to home screen, touch near the bottom centre, then find the wedge-shaped fan speed widget and adjust that). Temperature needs to pop up another pane and set that by clicking the temperature number and then manipulating a bar chart thing. None of this except the "return to home" button is tactile in any way.

Before: turn the dial. Done. Temperature is the one next to it.

Adjusting the sound balance is downright dangerous (pull down the Android-esque menu and click though levels in the UI). Old car: press the tactile centre of the volume wheel until it says balance, then use the wheel.


The ford truck products were like this in the 80s and 90s. The "all push button" radio of that era was spec'd out the way it was because of that goal.


Same situation with even modern land cruisers, with the exception of the hvac system in the top end models. A common modification is to order the base model modules from Australia and get rid of all the touch screen components.




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