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 ...

For years, drivers have been clear about one thing. They want modern tech without feeling like they have to fight the interface every time they adjust the volume or scroll a menu. In Audi’s latest EV ...

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 ...

Porsche says it’s going to keep physical controls in its cars after removing many for its Taycan EV. Porsche will retain essential physical controls like buttons and knobs in its vehicle interiors.

For all the convenience modern tech promises, touchscreens have quietly become one of the most polarizing features in today’s cars. Climate controls buried in menus, glossy displays that smear with ...

Go low-tech: Over the last few years, Volkswagen has removed physical buttons in its vehicles, choosing to bake control settings into its infotainment panel. Now, the company is backtracking. It's a ...

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 ...

Designers might want clean, screen-filled dashboards, but customers want physical controls, the automaker says. And it's ...