Physical buttons in a car/vehicle are a bug!

[Mickey]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/rivians-chief-software-officer-says-221656379.html

Interesting take, but perhaps Wassym's comment was taken out of context? Or perhaps he's out of "touch" with why so many of us enjoy clicking on buttons?

To each his own. Personally, I like my R1T's perfect combination of tactile buttons and touch-sensitive controls. However, I do get annoyed at times when touching a control and it does not respond on the first touch.

Also, in looking at the button-bliss interior of the future VW "R1T/S look-alikes", I counted 11 buttons all in a row! I'm not a typist, so trying to focus on hitting the right button while driving would be unsafe for me. (Oops, I just hit a button on my computer keyboard, and the letter didn't appear.)

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[Blakejakely]

If Alexa worked perfectly, I would agree. The biggest struggles sans button is finding music, navigating, and HVAC. Both Alexa consistently fails with all of those. If we had controls for temperature via the steering wheel controls, that would be great. But for the love of god, don't remove those tactile controls like Tesla did. I 100% will not purchase again if you remove stalks or tactile buttons there.

 

[usulio]

It's a fallacy to think you've made a meaningful impact on your privacy by disabling anything. Because the reality is: if they're collecting data on you, they're collecting data on you regardless of whether or not you flipped that switch.

This is just false. If by "they" you mean the NSA and friends, that's out of scope for this discussion. But as far as companies recording you and using or selling that data, you absolutely can move the needle by denying apps access to the microphone, closing apps, or deleting them from your phone.

Contrary to what you posted in an earlier post, my phone and computer don't record audio in my life unless I ask them to, and it's not that hard to set that up. Everyone can and should decide their own comfort level.

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