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It's a case of picking the right tool for the job, touchscreens aren't entirely awful. But if I'm driving and I want to switch to Radio, the button should always be in the exact same place so I don't need to think.

My car has buttons for all these operations and it's great. What is bad for is browsing the map when I'm parked; say I'm looking for a car park near my destination, by the time I've zoomed out with a scroll wheel, browsed around and zoomed back in a few times I could've done the same thing on my phone and set off.



> the button should always be in the exact same place so I don't need to think.

I don't think that thinking is the problem, the problem is looking to locate.


It is, because if you look at your touch screen controls and it's in another mode, you need to think about how you get out and back to radio.

When there's a button that says 'Radio' on it that never moves, you don't need to look _or_ think.




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