China Is Putting Car Gimmicks on Probation — and the Humble Button Wins
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China is continuing its crackdown on some modern automotive fads. After banning retractable door handles this year, it is now targeting large touchscreens, comfortable seats and adjustable headlight light signatures.
Beijing is trying to curb the design excesses of the modern automotive industry. New draft regulations call for physical controls for critical functions and stricter safety checks for digital systems.
Now China is fighting back against the increasing number of touchscreens in cars. In a new draft regulation, the authorities require that important functions be controlled with physical controls. Several popular luxury features could also be banned. Car dashboards have changed dramatically in recent years. Traditional buttons and knobs have been replaced by large touchscreens where the driver must navigate through menus to […]
Between XXL-style cockpits and giant touchscreens, China believes that driver safety is at stake. A new technical guide could defeat cards for cars sold at home as well as in Europe.
China is putting car gimmicks on probation — and the humble button wins
Somewhere along the road to the software-defined car, designers began treating every ordinary control as an embarrassing mechanical relative who should be hidden before the guests arrived. China’s latest safety proposal is a bracing reply: if your clever idea makes a car harder to escape, operate or trust, perhaps it is not clever at all. […]
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