‘Eyes on the road’
Not a fan of touch-sensitive buttons or the trend where functions are completely housed in the infotainment system and can no longer be operated with a physical button at all? No worries. At least, not if you are in the market for a new Hyundai. This brand is sticking to the physical button for the time being.
None other than World Car Person of the Year SangYup Lee, head of Hyundai’s design department, tells the Australian Carguide that Hyundai is not banning the physical buttons for the time being. According to the design boss, physical buttons have a big advantage over touch-sensitive buttons or functions housed in a touchscreen. You can find physical buttons by touch and that is so easy while driving.
“We will continue with physical buttons. If there are cars that can drive autonomously at level 4, then everything will probably be a soft key. Until then, it is safest to keep your eyes on the road while driving,” says SangYup Lee. Hyundai’s head of design believes that, among other things, the operation of the climate control and the audio system should be done via a physical push and/or rotary knob. must take place.
Last year, Volkswagen indicated that it would reverse its switch to touch-sensitive buttons on the steering wheel. In the ID2all Concept that it recently showed, we indeed saw push buttons on the steering wheel again and even a rotary knob in the center tunnel to control the infotainment system. Brands such as Tesla and BMW seem to be increasingly focusing on waving goodbye to the physical button.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl