It’s interesting that you say that because the people arguing against touchscreens are writing long thoughtful comments aligned with decades of human factors research, quite notably contrasting with proponents.

Which thoughtful comments? “Well duh”? Are there any comments looking critically at the original study or are they all just using the headline to confirm their biases?

Not really. You can say the same about about both sides. I prefer buttons and touchscreen. See the ioniq 5 for a good example of this implementation.

Tesla seem to be trying to Steve Jobs / iphone the car experience, and I absolutely don't want that.

And if having a different opinion to you means I'm of the hivemind, then so be it (frankly a ridiculous comment, but anyway).

The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind. Note that there is no nuanced discussion on this topic, everybody has already arrived at their conclusion. Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.

> The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind

By this logic isn't everyone who is pro-touchscreens also a hivemind?

> Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.

Many people are demonstrably bad drivers who are over-confident in their ability and down-play the risk of distractions. When drunk driving was made illegal, people were furious and insisted they were fine to drive drunk and that it was perfectly safe: https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg

Touchscreens, while convenient and extensible, are demonstrably inferior to static physical controls for saftey-critical contexts.