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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by RankingMember on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:17AM (#20203792)
Your "no way to turn the car off but leave the radio or AC on" complaint doesn't make sense to me, as the AC compressor is powered by the engine's accessory drive belt, which won't turn if the engine's off.

Otherwise, those sound like fair complaints. I'd add that Honda tried to go to a touch-based volume control in 2015/2016 and it was universally panned for its poor responsiveness and requirement that users take their eyes off the road to adjust radio volume. Can't win'em all I guess.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by mikelward on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:32PM (#20204635)
Yeah, I wasn't sure about the AC. My actual use case is it leave music playing over Bluetooth or Android Auto.
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by mikelward on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:34PM (#20204651)
The volume control is fairly good in the 2018 model. There's a dial on the head unit, and a strange-but-fairly-effective touch sensitive volume control on the steering wheel.
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by mikelward on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:46PM (#20208080)
I imagine the fan could still work?
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by RankingMember on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:43PM (#20215005)
Yep, the fan will work, but you won't get cold air.
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