I was browsing the HJ website, and was diverted into a road test of the new Peugeot 308SW. Sounds a cracking car, but a comment in the review caught my eye, which asserted that the touch pad was "rather better from a road safety point of view, than looking down and twiddling knobs". I disagree. My aging Saab is fitted with a touch screen radio & satnav, and I have been irritated for years that the touch screen can only be properly operated by looking at the screen to locate the small area required to change waveband etc. Much easier to feel for the control button without taking your eyes off the road. Luckily most of the common controls such as volume, station change, and source selection are on the steering wheel.
I can understand why satnavs are touch screen to a certain extent, but I have serious concerns about the safety aspects of touch screens, and IMHO cannot be considered to be a safety improvement on physical controls. Am I alone?
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