The move is part of move away from touchscreen controls, which drivers complained were tedious and dangerous to use while driving.

Volkswagen will restore physical buttons to the dashboard in its latest compact car, part of a wider move away from touchscreens.

In a particularly retro touch, the new ID Polo will even have a volume dial.

For a decade or so, automakers rushed to replace knobs and switches with screens, Autoblog noted in October, but users largely disliked them: Controlling the air conditioning, for example, required delving through submenus while driving, which was both difficult and dangerous. Research found that using touchscreens took longer and distracted drivers.

Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and VW have all announced plans to return to more tactile controls, and US and EU regulators announced last year that cars with touchscreen controls could get worse safety ratings.

  • Quadhammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    The new Toyota crown has lug studs bolts. The vein in my forehead when I saw it

      • Quadhammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        Instead of studs that come out of the hub and a lug nut bolts down on the other side of the wheel, you have a threaded lugnut as one piece that bolts from the outside of the wheel into the hub. Less diy friendly imo and seems far less secure

        • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I had a vehicle with the lug bolts, but it was more like an Allen key with the hex in the middle. Caused me all sorts of trouble when the head cracked while I was trying to change a tire.

        • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.caEnglish
          22·
          10 months ago

          Yes, it’s called a wheel bolt. And they are much better than studs in every way. It’s why all the German brands use them.

          • Quadhammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            10 months ago

            Edit:

            much better in every way

            Yeah, no, eat a dick. Wrong

            that’s why Germans use them

            Ah yes the genius engineers that brought you the easy to maintain and repair: audi, vw and Mercedes. Germans do a lot of things right but cars are not one of them

        • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Definitely not. I’ve worked on Mercedes, BMWs and VWs and they all had wheel bolts. I’ve seen plenty of Toyotas, Lexus and Mitsubishis with lug nuts though.

          • Quadhammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yeah I’m saying the new crown has wheel bolts and I don’t like it, we’ve been calling them lug studs but I see now they’re called wheel bolts