Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Auto Focus" channel.

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  13.  @seanplace8192  1) that doesn't change the fact that you don't need to for operating a button based console, once you have a reasonable familiarity with it. There is no touch screen device that I would feel comfortable ever operating blind. 2) Yes, you said that, but that doesn't make it true. The reality is that most people can operate the basic functions of a well designed physical console, once they'd become accustomed to it. In my own vehicle I can operate the fan, heat/cool level, radio volume and channel settings, and potentially more, all without looking at all. There are other buttons that I'd have to glance at to find, but those are the core functions that I'd be most likely to fiddle with while already in motion. 3) So what? If they are common enough to be predominately featured on a touch screen, then they would be buttons and knobs people would be likely to hit regularly. If they are options that are as rare as you claim, then they would probably be hidden on a touch screen, and impossible to find when needed. Buttons would still be better. I would be LESS bothered by a car that had a mix of the two, with buttons and knobs for both very common and very emergency functions, while also having a touch screen to control less common and important functions, but all buttons would still be better. 4) everyone in the modern world has used touch screens, and they obviously have their uses. I would never object to a touch screen being added to a car, I would only object to it replacing the existing buttons and knobs for common functions. Touch screens are more adaptable than buttons and knobs, so it can be more useful for certain things, like scrolling a track list, or working a map display, nobody questions that, but that doesn't mean it's better for every function, and even on modern smartphones people often comment when buttons are added or removed for things like volume control or home screen access, when technically these functions could be entirely touch-based.
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