Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score
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Which are really easy to use when you have to indicate you are going to leave the next exit on a roundabout, btw.
So easy that Norway is banning the use of Teslas for driving schools.
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Only if mandatory rear lights come back as well. Having them animate in the direction they are going to turn is very helpful when the car has no other rear lights whatsoever.
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I have a giant screen, and physical buttons for volume and air temp.
Super happy with it.
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Reversing camera
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You can prise my windscreen from my cold dead hands.
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If you’d used one you would know they show you angles you can’t see otherwise.
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It served humanity just fine for decades. My car is 25 years old and never ran anything over. Look before you get in, check your mirrors, crane your neck, look over your shoulder, activate parts of your brain. I plan on never owning one of these over complicated modern cars. You do you though I guess.
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Yes, and I know that because I too am highly regarded.
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You afraid of getting bugs in your teeth? Coward. ^/s^
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Those things would be way more useful if they had a wider FOV. I hate how most people now use them as the only way of checking behind them when backing up, because you really can't see shit well enough for that. It's meant for seeing something small and close that even physically turning around to look, you wouldn't see it. Like an animal or a child directly behind you.
All they've done is make people drive less safe because so many people just stare at the fucking camera screen instead of actually turning their head and checking their blind spots.
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The rate of decline of insects in the last few decades is quickly making that a non-issue.
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More physical controls is great, so I see this as a win. For navigation and media, I don't want to be without the screen, but I hate that my ventilation controls are 50 % hidden under touch controls, meaning I usually don't bother to change them while I drive, because it requires looking away too much.
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My car is 25 years old and never ran anything over.
That's in part because your car is 25 years old. Designs have changed over time to increase the sizes of blind spots (as an unintended consequence of things like strengthening the support pillars for the roof to increase rollover survivability).
