Do you remember single separate tie units with Sliders in the eighties and nineties? What a waste of space was.
When performing reasonably, touch screens can make a limited space of the dashboard space more useful by giving the driver fast and easy access to many functions while keeping the peripheral objects away from view.
The classic BMW IDrive Rotary is great to scroll through menus or outlook on the Sat-NAV map, so it makes the perfect partner for a well-deposited screen, but trying to enter a title with it is painful.
The touch screen does it better. Unlike some, I do not think the touch screens are dangerous in nature in using a mobile car. Some are definitely, there should also be criteria for response time and reliability of these things, because there is nothing more distracted than the dead or worse touch screen – perhaps worse – almost.
But if the devices are able to keep up with the lists reasonably, with large icons, simple graphics and a clear feeling of setting priorities that put important things permanently on the screen, touch screens can be great.
Apple Carplay has been a change of games, as it allows you to safely control music and podcast. The touch screen on the dinner panel in New Minis, despite all its mistakes, is a great re -professional reference for the old design and feel like an extension of the brand.
Touch screens are a type of superpower for interior designers. But in the same way that Spider-Man falls from the strange ceiling in its early days, and sometimes its powers are used for evil, car makers need to learn a balance.