Thank you for this. There is a very vocal minority on HN that cries bloody murder about touchscreens in cars. Anything that argues against the hivemind is often downvoted and dismissed without much thought or self-reflection.
Tesla seem to be trying to Steve Jobs / iphone the car experience, and I absolutely don't want that.
And if having a different opinion to you means I'm of the hivemind, then so be it (frankly a ridiculous comment, but anyway).
By this logic isn't everyone who is pro-touchscreens also a hivemind?
> Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.
Many people are demonstrably bad drivers who are over-confident in their ability and down-play the risk of distractions. When drunk driving was made illegal, people were furious and insisted they were fine to drive drunk and that it was perfectly safe: https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg
Touchscreens, while convenient and extensible, are demonstrably inferior to static physical controls for saftey-critical contexts.