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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by dazc on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:17AM (#34289441)
In the UK touchscreen controls come very low in my list of concerns regarding other road users, legal or not.

Legality is irrelevant since the chance of being prosecuted for any driving offence, to any behaviour changing degree, is negligible.

Primarily though is the level of man-child, small man syndrome, penis envy behaviour that one has to encounter on a daily basis.

The average driver can not even manage physical indicator switches with any degree of competency , never mind anything so advanced as a touch screen.

There is a well known list of vehicle makes that are likely to contain occupants with a very low driving standard, as well as a high degree of bullying tendencies, and Tesla isn't on it, as far as I am aware?

Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by tremon on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:27AM (#34289565)
man-child

The most worrying increase I see around here is the use of a vehicle as an assault weapon. I think it was popularized by ISIS terrorists (Nice and Berlin IIRC), but over the past year we've had multiple incidents of people driving into crowds or cops over a previous altercation. I cannot fathom why such an offense does not lead to a lifelong driving ban.

But that's not really on-topic when discussing driving controls: luckily, most vehicle crashes are still accidents, not attempted homicides. And for these cases, whether the car has buttons or a touch screen does matter.

Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by newaccount74 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @02:03PM (#34291390)
> people driving into crowds or cops over a previous altercation. I cannot fathom why such an offense does not lead to a lifelong driving ban.

I'd hope that someone who consciously drives a car into another person would spend the rest of their life in prison (which effectively includes a driving ban)

Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by Rebelgecko on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:28AM (#34289568)
Where i live Tesla have caught up to BMWs and Dodge Chargers when it comes to douchey driving
Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by jeromegv on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:23AM (#34289504)
Legality is relevant because the law would apply to cars being sold, which is a lot easier to enforce than preventing drivers from using what’s already in the car.
Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by CobaltFire on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:33PM (#34290388)
Here in SoCal Tesla’s are second only to Nissans on the aggressively dangerous driver scale in my experience.

In the past few years no other brand demographic comes close with the possible exception of lifted full size trucks and Chargers, but they are a ways back.