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We can only hope it's the start of a trend. I can't think of a single car feature I would want on a touchscreen instead of a physical control, except I guess something like GPS (which I don't really consider a car feature, but maybe that's just because I'm getting old and curmudgeonly).

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Any feature that you have to fully stop to activate and is not often used IMO would be fine on a touchscreen, e.g disabling ESP.

The upside of a touchscreen is that you can make the buttons disappear if they go out of context.

Who decides the context?

Random know-it-alls on the internet obviously.

The point is that those "essential functions" never go out of context.

It's easy to end up with something like this though:

https://phonewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ne210_kx_nt...

What's wrong with that? The optimal UI for anything remotely complex arguably includes both physical and touchscreen controls.

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