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>Touchscreens won because they're versatile: enough so that I don't actually have a physical button on my phone to open the camera.

Usually there is a way to open the camera by pressing say volume Up 3 times, it would open the camera much faster then you having to turn on the screen and tap a camera button that could be hard in sun light.

Do you enjoy typing on a phone or trying to hit those small buttons on the menus or in some apps? a few pixels miss would start a different action.

I hate it but it could be just me, I have eye problems and I use the phone with largest possible fonts and other accessibility features on.



I actually see that as an argument in favor of touchscreens in cars. If you have accessibility needs, physical controls crammed in a small space should be just as difficult to hit as virtual ones. At least with a screen you may get the choice to enable accessibility features that increase sizes and make tap targets bigger.


I can't drive because of my eyes, but your argument is backwards, physical buttons can have different sizes and textures, so the Ford Fiesta has a smooth round button for the radio, I can't miss it because it looks and it feels different and it is placed in the center, then switching station you press on it's left/right edge so the driver can do it directly without looking at the button or at any display. I am not saying you should remove th3 touchscreen but keep the most important and most used buttons on the wheel or on the center dashboard as physical buttons and keep the important displays like speed, LEDs for the lights and the important systems in the dashboard.




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