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Many Teslabros commenting on this saying buttons are unsafe etc. Get a grip, please. As someone who has worked for a few years in automotive ergonomics, here’s the science of why physical buttons are better: The human body remembers where things are and relates them to touch. When you walk into a dark room in your house, you don’t look for the light switch do you? You know where it is and reach for it, then confirm the place with the touch of your fingers, your brain registering the shape of the switch. That’s ’muscle memory’. You absolutely, 100% cannot do that with a touchscreen. You might be able to get to the general location but then you need to look, taking your eyes off the road. Especially for that second press as there’s no way they’re just one menu deep. So to summarise, touchscreens are not safer. What they are, is much much cheaper, which is why manufacturers like them. The people who buy the cars though, on the whole, do not.