I bought a new car last year. When we were researching and narrowing down options, I had a column on my spreadsheet for physical buttons/nobs/etc. It’s incredible how many cars now do not have physical implements for things you can easily do while watching the road. So that became a requirement. We needed a minimum amount of physical buttons/etc for vital things like lights, wiper blades, volume, and climate control. But seriously, the amount of cars that don’t have those things anymore is quite astounding.
You can’t say all of that without mentioning what you actually ended up buying.
I ended up buying the new Prius. Not perfect, but it has knobs and buttons for everything important you might immediately want to adjust while driving.
Do you mind sharing the spreadsheet or the datapoints you were looking at?
It wasn’t too intuitive. If we looked at a car, we would specifically look for how to adjust basic things like climate, volume, etc. then based on what we found we would mark it as “yes” for has all standard knobs/buttons, “no” for does not have them which includes touch buttons or anything else not tactile, or “hybrid” meaning some standards are tactile and some are not. I would list the Prius we got as hybrid, but enough of what I needed were in button form to make me happy.
