Volkswagen is again reminding everyone that knows it messed up by running with touchscreens and abandoning physical controls. Leadership wants people to understand that won’t be the case moving ...

VW’s design chief says it will reintroduce physical buttons starting with the ID. 2all. VW’s design chief says it will reintroduce physical buttons starting with the ID. 2all. Mindt also says the ...

Mercedes-Benz jumped on the “touch-sensitive-everything” bandwagon like many other automakers, but it’s now second-guessing that approach. The company’s head of software, Magus Ostberg, recently said ...

You could call it the Tesla Effect. I’m talking about the shift across the industry to replace traditional physical controls for functions like temperature selection with virtual buttons on a ...

Take a good look at the dashboard design of the Honda e. Take as much time as you need. Notice something strange? Even though it’s a high-tech electric vehicle with video cameras instead of mirrors ...

Designers might want clean, screen-filled dashboards, but customers want physical controls, the automaker says. And it's promising to keep them. Olabisi Boyle, senior vice president for product ...

The 2025 Chevy Equinox debuts an all-new fourth generation for the crossover, with new styling inside and out among the list of highlights. The cabin, for example, now includes larger screens, ...

What manual controls should be present in autonomous vehicles, how they should be tested as road-worthy, and just how advanced the current state-of-the-art is are all points of controversy, as US road ...

Some progress in the automotive industry is laudable. Cars are safer than ever and more efficient, too. But there are other changes we’d happily leave by the side of the road. That glossy “piano black ...

Europe’s road safety authority, Euro NCAP, is aiming to make the use of physical buttons in vehicles necessary if automakers want a five-star rating. The move is designed to discourage automakers from ...

The Swedish magazine put the HMI (Human-Machine Interface) systems of twelve cars to the test, attempting to complete four simple tasks as quickly as possible. This included: turning on the driver's ...