“Bring back the buttons’: Crash testers see a major accident risk in car touchscreens. A change in the evaluation criteria will require more “real” buttons from 2026.
At Tesla, almost all operation is done via the touchscreen. At VW, for example, they have taken customer protests about pure touch controls in the vehicle to heart - brand boss Thomas Schäfer vowed to make improvements. The reassessment of Euro NCAP could particularly affect Tesla: The electric car manufacturer has now banned almost all levers and buttons from its vehicles.