Aw, just when they were about to get rid of the steering wheel, shame.
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Even without the new EU regulations on this, I bet VW was already planning on doing this. The widespread backlash to the non-illuminated capacitive touch controls on the newest Golf GTIs/Rs was significant. I wouldn't have bought one of those, and a Golf R is basically my dream car.
I dunno. Cadillac has been doing this for decades and show no sign of stopping. I had them in my Chevy Volt and they were infuriating.
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I literally did not buy/straightout refused to buy new Golf because of this crap. It does not get simpler than that: other producer got my money, VW group did not. Period.
Volkswagen should be forbidden to produce anything. There were even touch-SLIDE commands on the steering wheel. God only knows how many lives were lost in accidents, because someone ''touched'' something and switched something off or on. Horrible.
I swear I‘ve read this headline like 4 times in the last month in this very community.
Learning from Scout, which is also under the VW umbrella:
would be nice seeing them doing it instead of talking about it
I mean, that's step 1? It's not like they can do an instantaneous cutover, they'll need to figure out what's vital enough to deserve buttons, come up with a design/layout for that, find a supplier for them, get them in, start assembling the cars with them... Honestly they've probably already done a lot of that behind the scenes already before saying anything publicly. Point is, it's not like there's a button in the factory to start making cars with buttons instead.
Hopefully they can hit some middleground so we don't end up back in the crazy button-hell that cars used to be. Having a billion buttons is equally as bad as having none.
revolutionary
Unbelievable levels of ingenuity.
Good
Btw, is that a tablet dock i see?
The thing in the middle under the display? I'd assume its a scrolling wheel, kinda like on your mouse but very wide
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