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I would love a hybrid approach: gimme touchscreens, gimme some physical controls especially for hardware actions like popping the trunk. C'mon, a software update isn't going to delete my trunk, so put a button for it.

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> gimme some physical controls especially for hardware actions like popping the trunk

I'm with you on this, but it's a pretty great example of when a touchscreen isn't a safety hazard: very unlikely I'll want to pop the trunk while I need to keep my eyes on the road.

What if someone's trying to rear end me, and the trunk is where I keep my inflatable ramp?

But you might want to pop the trunk containing your jumper cables if your battery is dead.

That would be great. My older BMW doesn't let me do that despite having physical buttons for almost everything. I got stranded once because of this. Manual said to call roadside assistance, which is real helpful when I don't have cell service.

Yes, though that's a different requirement -- most trunk "buttons" are electronically, not mechanically, connected to the latch, aren't they?

That's how Crew Dragon works, I wish Elon would apply that process to his cars.

Hard enough to control this stuff in a moving car, let alone in zero g and a hard vacuum.

(you know, it could be because touch sensors don't work with space gloves)

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