Technology

Hyundai is listening to what consumers want much more readily than other manufacturers, and their body designs strike an incredible balance between modern familiarity and retrofuturism. It's almost exactly what I want from a new vehicle, other than the fact that they use all the same forced telemetry that other brands are using.

They're also offering a great spread of electric AND hybrid vehicles to satisfy consumers worried about charger availability as well as consumers worried about the impact of gasoline-powered vehicles.

I won't be surprised if they continue to increase their market share for a long time to come. If only privacy concerns were as common among the broader population as they seem to be here in the Fediverse, then maybe they might address those issues as well and be a no-brainer purchase.

Congratulations on taking a fucking DECADE to realize what should've been FUCKING OBVIOUS from the start.

a screen is good for navigation and music, basically it

Good. This should be forced via regulations. Touchscreen controls are provably more dangerous than buttons due to the distraction.

"Annoying", "serious safety hazard", safe difference, right?

More importantly, they are dangerous.

I just got a new Hyundai and I think they already have the perfect amount of touch vs buttons. Everything you need to access has buttons, the things which would be too annoying to do during the drive are touch

Absolutely my creed. In my industrial niche, touch screen never took hold - when your action is actually (or at least perceived) important, nobody wants to rely on touch screens.

Not having touch anything is a selling point for me. Bonus points if I can roll up the window too.

The bathrooms in hell all have automatic sinks where you can't tell where the sensor is and an inconsistent delay.

Honestly. I'd be fine with a touchscreen for things you wouldn't likely be adjusting on the go anyways - but basic stuff like the radio and AC/Fans should always be easy to distinguish, don't need to look away from the road to operate buttons. Making basic stuff require touchscreen is inconvenient at best and outright dangerous at worst.

They aren't just annoying, they're dangerous and can't be operated without looking at them

First good news I've heard in a while.

Goddamn right!!

The only thing I need on a screen is the GPS, everything else is an annoyance.

I have a pre-touchscreen era (for its model anyway) 2012 car. I'm hoping by the time I have to get a new car this touchscreen fad will have come and gone. How are you supposed to use those things in the winter when you have gloves on?

Hyundai Design North America Vice President Ha Hak-soo said that people "get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so."

How many years it took them to figure it out?