Some cars use just a screen to control things like the radio or air conditioning, without any real buttons. This can make it harder to use while driving.
Touchscreen controls are when you use a screen in the car to do things like turn on the signals or wipers instead of using buttons. Sometimes, having only screens can make it harder to use these quickly.
The steering wheel is what you hold to turn the car left or right. Newer cars sometimes have buttons or touch controls on it to help with other functions.
The Mercedes-Benz GLC is a fancy small SUV that is comfortable and has lots of helpful features to make driving easier and safer. The newest models have new buttons and systems that help the driver.
Haptic swipe surfaces are touch areas on the car's controls that feel like buttons when you swipe or tap them, even though they are flat and don't move.
The IndyCar Series is a type of car race in the U.S. where special fast cars race on big tracks, including a very famous race called the Indianapolis 500.
The Citroën Traction Avant is an old car from 1934 that was special because it used its front wheels to pull the car instead of the back wheels. This made it easier to drive and helped make cars better in the future.
The Acura Legend is a nice, comfortable car that came out in the 1980s. It was one of the first cars from Acura, a brand that makes reliable and fancy cars.
The Dodge Challenger SRT8 is a fast and powerful car that looks like the muscle cars from many years ago. It was brought back in 2008 and is known for being really strong and fun to drive.
A federal tax credit is money the government gives back to people who buy electric cars to make them cheaper.
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Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast.
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This is your place for all things automotive and other things.
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Coming up, our story of the week, Part 2.
Later, Mars has this week in auto history,
and Jeffrey has the racing calendar,
and I'll get you caught up on the stories making headlights this week.
Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars.
We always need more Jeff Zekin.
An engineer, David Aisley. Let's not forget.
Never forget David Aisley.
Very important.
Very much so. I'm Don Armstrong. Glad you could join us today.
And so I had a couple of stories. I've done one,
but this is the more expanded one, the story of the week.
And I don't know why.
Well, you be the judge of why I selected it. You'll see.
European automakers are reworking interior designs
after Euro NCAP updated its assessment protocols in January
to discourage touchscreen-only controls for essential driving tasks.
Wow.
The move extends a safety debate that intensified
as touchscreen-dependent dashboards became standard across the industry.
Sound familiar? We just had a review.
So starting this year, physical controls will be required
for turn signals, wipers, hazard lights, horn, and SOS calls
to earn five stars from Euro NCAP,
which evaluates the safety of new vehicles through standardized crash tests
and safety feature assessments.
Automakers that stick solely to touch screens for these functions
will have points deducted from their Euro NCAP safety evaluation.
Euro NCAP is a voluntary safety rating program,
so its requirements are not mandated by European law.
They're just saying, hey, if you want to get high ratings,
let's have some knobs and buttons back and not all computer-based touchscreen stuff.
Touch screen or move your eyeballs.
And all I can do is go back to, well, a couple of things.
Tesla and slash Tesla's rocket that goes into outer space
and hear the guys sitting there in front of a big touchscreen.
And if you want anything, they just touch on the touchscreen.
In a car, it's a little bit different.
Because in a spacecraft, you really don't have to watch the road too much.
Right, you know, it is important.
Depending on who's driving.
But Jeff Heitzman would be able to tell you that.
Can he be able to tell you that too?
So in China, similar requirements could become law.
Bloomberg reported February 13th that proposed regulations
from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology say that
turn signals, hazard lights, gear selection, and emergency calling
must have fixed buttons or switches
with a minimum surface size of 0.4 inches by 0.4 inches.
So that's a pretty...
It's almost a half inch.
It is, yeah, for the button.
The moves in Europe and China are a challenge to automakers
seeking minimalist interiors such as Tesla, BYD, and Xiaomi
amid safety concerns about driver distraction and screen failures
which is what I've been saying all along.
Hey, it's great.
Oh, look at how clean the dashboard is.
Now, I want to find Sirius XM Channel 75.
Okay, now I've got to go here, here, here.
I've got to go drill down through all these menus.
Yep.
A couple of screens and everything.
Well, I think there's two things you're saying,
because you said you drive a car in a car every week,
so it's a different setup.
Once you own the car, you just put it in same.
Yes.
And that's a good point to make.
I understand, but I haven't driven a car,
particularly these brands that you're referring to,
that has the horn inside it that I've got to go to the touchscreen
to honk the horn or turn the wipers on or turn the signals.
You haven't driven a Tesla.
No, I haven't.
That's what I'm saying.
I haven't, but I cannot imagine.
Okay, I'm going down the road.
Hey, I'm trying to find the horn and I'm hollering.
And your wipers go on and your turn signals.
Radio goes up in volume.
But to bring it home and in reality, the bottom line is
there are certain functions, like for instance,
yes, on the steering wheel, there's a thing for the volume control.
Okay, so I find it with my thumb.
I'm still driving.
I'm still looking ahead down, going down the road.
And I can find that on my thumb and I can turn it up or turn it down
whatever the case may be.
You know, here on the right hand side, I can change the channels.
I got that.
But let's say for instance that I want to change the treble or
I want to balance whatever the case may be.
I want it.
So I don't have to take my eyes off the road to do whatever.
If I want the temperature to go up or the temperature to go down.
I don't want to have to look at it.
I know that on that knob, I can turn it up and it makes the
temperature warmer or turn it back down to the left.
And it's cooler, whatever the case may be.
You see what I'm saying?
And to just point, if it's your car and you've driven it for a while,
I mean, even after a week, you get some of it, but you get the
muscle memory where I can reach over there and I can feel that fan knob
and I can turn it up or down without really looking at it.
Does this say anything about hands-free driving in that?
Let's continue on.
The risk of crashes increases as drivers hunt through touch screen menus
to access basic functions.
The EU's voluntary guidelines are not working because current
touch screens and infotainment systems are distracting and unsafe.
Frank Mutes, vehicle safety expert at European Transport Safety
Council said in a statement, Euro NCAP requiring physical controls
for some functions such as welcome step in the right direction.
But we now need EU regulators to follow up and adopt legally binding
requirements for all vehicles.
Now, you know, we always change with what if Europe does
something that we like, then we're going to steal it from them
and vice versa, right?
Sure.
For automakers, the new protocols mean a major move away
from touch screen dependent dashboards.
Volkswagen brand's response could be seen in its new full electric ID
Polo, which includes physical controls for key functions such as
climate control and hazard lights.
In addition, the driver can adjust auto volume and skip tracks
with rotary control knobs.
VW's rethink of its new generation interior comes after the brand's
design chief, Andreas Mint, M-I-N-D-T, admitted to the ETSC XYZ
that the shift to touch screens for vital controls was a mistake.
He said it.
He designed it.
He said it's a mistake.
Mercedes-Benz acknowledges that physical buttons are better for
certain functions.
The new generation GLC and CLA models are equipped with a steering
wheel that replaces haptic swipe surfaces and I hated that thing,
that little black button that you swipe with your thumb with physical
rocker switches, rotary rollers and hard buttons.
Hyundai opting for a hybrid approach, keeping physical knobs and
buttons for frequently used functions such as volume control
in a bid to reduce driver stress.
Tesla, which clusters nearly all controls on a touch screen,
plans to reintroduce physical turn signal stocks in some models
according to media reports, at least those that they're going to
continue to build because they just cut out two more vehicles.
BMW, meanwhile, started removing its physical rotary iDrive knob from
cars in 2021.
It's new class generation of vehicles starting with the iX3 debut
BMW's panoramic iDrive system, which has a full width pillar to pillar
display and haptic touch controls on the steering wheel.
BMW said key functions such as an emergency call function and the
hazard lights will continue to be controlled by buttons.
Automakers in Europe have a three year window to redesign interiors
to qualify for Euro NCAP's top safety score.
Can you imagine if they take, people who don't use the turn signals
now and all they got to do is push a lever and now we're going to,
you go to tell them, now you got to drill into this touchscreen,
two screens down.
That ain't going to happen, brother.
No.
Hey, I'm driving a car that's got a 30 plus inch glass screen.
You know that.
I've got toggles for my air conditioning up and down fan and all
that stuff for heat for the seats.
They're toggles.
I've got a dial for my volume for the radio or push button on and off
and dial of that.
It is going to be car of the year this year, I hope, but it is a
bit made in China.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, but I would imagine that it was designed here in the United
States.
Oh yeah.
By a very smart individual from Detroit.
Yeah.
Probably.
But like I say, it gets very irritating.
Like with all the little buttons, the car that I was driving last
week had two of those on the, on the steering wheel.
And I had to figure out how, which one of them did what and how
to maneuver it.
It was like maneuvering a little, the little button on the old
laptops.
You know, you used to have the little button right in the middle of
the keyboard.
Drive you insane.
Absolutely.
Well, you didn't talk about it.
It's a short drive, but still.
The hands, hands free steering.
They introduced that at the auto boat of show.
People were talking about that.
Now, why would you put all of those functions, like you said,
look on the steering wheel to let go of it?
You've been, you've been a salesman.
You've driven millions of miles selling your wares with your suitcase
and all that stuff.
And for that guy that drives on the highway between cities all
across the United States, it's great.
You press the button.
If it sees something that it's not right, it turns it off.
It has a beep, beep, beep or buzzes your butt, whatever the case may be.
Right?
Yeah.
And if something is awry, it will actually slow down, take its foot off.
Listen, they got it down pretty fast.
My cruise control does that.
If you catch it up to a car in front of you.
Adaptive cruise control, of course.
But the drilling down into menus when you're doing 70 miles an hour down
the South San Houston tollway, that does not work.
Oh, you drive in the slow lane.
Yeah.
You get it.
Well, you don't think I'm going to admit it because you know who listens
to this show.
Well, that'd be Sergeant Woodard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
DPS.
I drive the speed limit, Sergeant.
He does not.
Well, actually he does.
He drives below the speed limit, which would drive everybody insane.
That traffic back up.
Yeah, that's Jeff up there in the front.
Who is that moron doing 50 in a 70?
It's Jeff.
Hello.
Because it says, do that speed limit.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, you go by your rules and I'll go by mine.
But the screen in the middle.
Yeah, there are the two you shall never meet.
I do there.
Listen, I can find something wrong with every single car.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
That doesn't work for me.
Don Armstrong, but it may work for you or anybody else.
You know, they don't build it.
If they built a car just for you, the car would be so outrageously priced.
You wouldn't be able to afford it because it would be you.
But they can build a, you know, a HVAC system with controls this way for
everybody and everybody understands for the most part.
There are some systems and cars that are not cheap somewhere between 50 and
$70,000.
I'm going, why, why would you do that?
Who, who said, oh, that's the way we're going to go.
I want to know who that person is because I want to say this is wrong.
This is not nobody that I know of.
And I, I asked you, you, I asked Leslie, anybody, how do you feel about Katie?
Katie, what do you think about the way that you drill down the menus to
get to a certain radio station?
She goes, well, that's stupid.
Now this is a girl that launches satellites into orbit.
It's stupid.
Who, who, who does this?
Not real people.
Users don't, but I have a theory that I've developed over years of nonsense in
that engineers engineer.
They have to have something to engineer.
Doesn't have to make any difference.
If it's working fine, let me re-engineer that because I've got to engineer something.
Years and years of nonsense.
This talk show operated flawlessly for years and years and years.
And then we move into a new facility.
Mars says, I'll fix it.
I'm going to do something different.
So I don't have to come over here and do this every week and drive, you know,
a million miles a year.
Okay.
We are still trying to figure out stuff.
We're still fixing it.
We're going to call Katie.
Okay.
Because you know what she'd say.
That's stupid.
Thank you, Katie.
We love you.
Yeah, we do.
Thank you very much for being you and don't go changing.
Okay.
Just a hat.
Jeff has the racing calendar.
Mars has this week in auto history.
And I'll bring you this week's automotive news headlines when the in-wheel time car
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Time now for the racing calendar, Jeff, sponsored by Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
Thank you for that.
That's going to be Gator Nationals March 5th through 8th.
It's coming up pretty quick.
It's going to be next week.
IndyCar Series.
No, it's not.
March 5th through the 8th.
It's not next week.
Two weeks.
Two weeks.
How many?
Two weeks.
It'll be done in two weeks.
Two weeks.
IndyCar Series coming up.
The St. Petersburg March 1st.
That's coming up very soon.
You've got the Formula One schedule is out there doing some testing and doing some complaining.
Somebody got hit with a purse or something.
Is there anything, Michael?
Isn't there a race this weekend in NHRA doing something?
Yeah, the purse race.
Let's take a look.
It is, you know, I don't know.
Yeah, I know.
I just chased made a comment whenever I was talking to him that he was with Stan and they
were at the races and I just assumed that.
Oh, no, that was over and they're over in Louisiana.
Oh, at the horse races.
No, no, no.
Maybe do some testing or something.
What's it called?
Beaumont Rose or something.
It's a race track over there.
I've been there.
Yeah.
Okay.
There you go.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
It's a quarter mile drag strip.
The quarter tracks, half mile tracks, dirt tracks.
They're all coming to life.
Yeah.
You know, we need to have Rodney on.
Yeah.
I was thinking about that too.
What's coming up.
Yeah.
Got a note out to him.
He's been pretty busy with O'Reilly and the things he's got going on there.
That's good.
Well, he can take some time for us because he wouldn't be where he is today if it worked
for us.
Damn it.
He's still holding that against us.
Yeah.
There is that.
There was that restroom incident.
Anyway, time now for this week in Auto History, Mr. Mars.
Yes, sir.
Got a few things here that we thought was pretty interesting.
And the first thing up is in 1923.
Now, this is interesting because this is when Dodge Brothers was the company was incorporated.
Now, the founders, John and Horace Dodge, both died because of the flu epidemic that was
going on.
And that was your dad when we got the flu.
Yeah.
I mean, it was tough, particularly back then.
So it actually got incorporated in 1923.
And I thought this was really interesting whenever the because I got to go to the Dodge
House one time up there in Detroit, and it had all of the stuff that was the house was
there.
We got to tour part of it.
They bought a bunch of the cars out of the museum and put them out there in the parking
lot.
And we got a little bit of history about the Dodge Brothers.
And it was so much involved in all that earlyness that was going on whenever the automotive industry
was starting.
The earlyness.
Yes.
In the early 1900s.
That's the word I was looking for.
Then in 1928, Volvo introduces the V4 to the wider markets.
Now, this was important because this is their first big vehicle that really developed their
reputation for safety and solid engineering.
They made 10 of them to kind of push them around the world, let everybody see them.
And there's one left.
And the one we've got pictured here is the one that's left in the museum.
And they've got a replica of the body framework that they made out of wood at the time.
And that's what they would actually cover it up.
Then in 1934, the Citroën Traction Avant was rolled out in France.
Citroën.
Citroën, yeah.
And it was actually, this was the first mass-produced front-wheel-drive car that you had the unitized
body construction and independent front suspension.
Now all these advanced...
What year was that?
1934.
That's actually really ahead of its time.
It was.
It was very much.
And with the low stance of it, it really had some nice handling and stuff that went on
with it.
Now in 1954, first production of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL.
Now this is the famous gull-wing doors that have been mimicked forever and ever.
And even now, hot rodders will take and put these Lambo-type doors that kind of fold up,
not like the gull wings, but it's very popular and there's very collectible cars.
And very expensive.
Yes.
In 1962, now this is how I brought this one up, John Deere enters the consumer...
That's John's car.
Now, you know, they've all been building tractors and stuff and a lot of stuff, but they got
in the consumer lawn and garden segment.
Now I thought this would be a little interesting because even though it's the tractors, this
particular vehicle that we've got pictured here, this is actually a horse-drawn manure
fertilized spreader.
Yeah.
I thought that would be kind of appropriate.
Well that would be appropriate for this show.
Exactly.
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The Acura legend was introduced and this was part of the new luxury models brand from
Acura that was spun off.
And so it came with a lot of the European premium seats and the styling is not what
it is now by any means, but the first one that came out...
That was the latest...
At the time, that was the latest greatest.
It was.
As a catchment.
151 horsepower, 2.5 liter V6 was the sedan.
That was the original one.
Then about a year later, they came out with a coupe that had 161 horsepower.
Then in 2008, the big one hit the Dodge Challenger SRT8.
Absolutely.
So, you know, this was the retro-inspired Challenger that was coming out from the SRT
group, the SRT8.
And what I did not know, that the first cars all came with 6.1 liter Hemmys.
Now, the first ones, the first 6,400 were all built in Canada.
They were all pre-sold before they ever got the first one out the door and they came with
a 370 cubic inch 5-speed automatic.
Now, they also built a hundred down in Mexico that had the 6.1 liter with the 425 horsepower
motor.
Those two were all sold and they all sold for the same price of $40,095 list.
And that is some of the things we found in this week in automotive history.
OK, I've got kind of a long story about EVs here.
I've got to do it.
It's shocking.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's shocking for a lot of people.
Automakers are unwinding their electric vehicle bets at a cost approaching 50 billion.
That's with a B, a stark measure of how much the industry misjudged what buyers would
embrace and how fast.
Write downs of investments in EV factory capacity, vehicle programs and battery manufacturing
have stained the balance sheets of General Motors, Ford, Stellantis and Honda in recent
months.
The charges range from an expected $1.9 billion by the end of March for Honda to roughly $26
billion for Stellantis, which didn't specify how much of what it called a reset of its
business was EV related.
The massive price tag is a product of how aggressively automakers focused their capital
investments on EVs, said E. T. Micaely, E. T. I. T. A. Y.
Hey, E. T. An equity auto analyst at T. D. Cowan, yet the charges don't necessarily
reflect a complete about face, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
The charges follow years of dialing up EV development to keep up with increasingly stringent zero
emission regulations in the U. S. and Europe.
Automakers also had to respond to competitive pressures from Tesla and startup EV manufacturers
that anybody say, okay, we're going to make these EVs, how are we going to get the people
to charge them?
Oh, there's that and we talked about that for years that this they were not making those
cars because buyers wanted to buy them.
Mainstream U. S. mainstream U. S. buyers have proved reluctant to switch from combustion
vehicles, citing higher purchase prices, concerns about battery range and charging speeds.
President Trump also moved quickly in his second term to relax federal regulations, ending
penalties for noncompliance with fuel economy standards and scuttling the $7500 federal tax
credit. The result, EV sales slowing, automakers reassessing how much production capacity
they need, converting some factory space back to combustion vehicles and canceling entire
programs.
The U. S. buyers registered 1.3 million EVs in 2025 for a 7.8% share of the new light
vehicle market down slightly from 8% in 2024, according to S and P global mobility.
Okay.
So it's ugly and automakers are really paying the price for jumping the gun on the EV stuff.
Look, I'm not that I'm anti EV, but you know what?
Go a little bit slower.
Why go all in with something that you know nothing about as far as uptake?
Well, that's that.
But they were pushed into it.
That's the problem because they can automakers can figure out, well, this isn't selling.
So I'm going to quit making it.
But if they're forced to make it, no matter what, then any market, whether it's automaker
or whoever is the got that problem.
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About this episode
The discussion centers on the shift away from touchscreen-only controls in cars, driven by new Euro NCAP safety guidelines requiring physical buttons for essential functions like turn signals, hazard lights, and horn. The hosts debate the safety and usability of touchscreen interfaces versus traditional knobs and buttons, highlighting automakers' varied responses including Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Tesla, and BMW. They emphasize the importance of tactile controls for driver focus and safety, sharing personal frustrations with complex touchscreen menus and praising physical controls for muscle memory and ease of use. The episode also touches on emerging regulations in China and the potential impact on car interior design.
Touch a screen or tap a button? We take you straight into the dashboard debate reshaping car design as Euro NCAP updates its safety protocols to favor physical controls for core functions like turn signals, wipers, hazards, the horn, and SOS. We unpack why tactile interfaces reduce glance time, how human factors drive safer choices at highway speeds, and where minimalist interiors hit their limits when real drivers need fast, error-proof inputs.
From Europe’s new rating criteria to China’s proposed rules mandating fixed buttons with minimum sizes, the global tide is turning. We explore how major brands are responding: Volkswagen restoring knobs and switches after admitting the all-touch pivot went too far, Mercedes replacing fussy haptics with rockers and rollers, Hyundai keeping high-frequency hardware to lower stress, Tesla reportedly reviving turn signal stalks, and BMW balancing sweeping displays with dedicated safety buttons. It’s not anti-tech; it’s pro-context—screens for setup and infotainment, hardware for what you must hit without looking.
We widen the lens with a quick lap through the racing calendar and a timely tour of auto history, showing how innovation thrives within clear rules. Then we connect the dots to today’s EV market reset, with carmakers writing down big bets as adoption slows. The throughline is simple: design that honors human realities wins. Less menu-diving, more muscle memory. Fewer taps, more trust.
If you care about smarter car interfaces, safer roads, and technology that serves drivers—not the other way around—this episode is your roadmap. Listen, subscribe for more honest car talk, and leave a review with your take: buttons back, or screens all the way?
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