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Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score

Mad_Punda@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Wait, which car models lack that for “hazard warning lights, indicators, windshield wipers, SOS calls, and the horn”?

Don’t get me wrong, I agree these need physical buttons or similar. But everyone is celebrating as if it’s for things I’ve seen hidden behind touch or capacitive buttons in the cars I’ve driven and that really annoy me, like temperature, volume, mute, and cruise control inputs. Or have I just not driven the worst of the worst (Tesla).

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Benaaasaaas@group.lt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Tesla, tesla lacks all of those

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- vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They don’t have a physical horn? Wtf…
  
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- Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ve only been in a Tesla with an Uber driver, so not paid attention to it… but no indicator or wiper control?
  
  Jeez.
  
  I’ve had a couple of cars with automatic wipers and they’re not that great… Having no controls would do my head in
  
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  - vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s not true, though. At least in 2022 models the indicator is in the standard place, and wipers are controllable via a button and scroller.
    
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    Benaaasaaas@group.lt ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    All older car models have all the physical controls, but sadly that’s not how it goes currently
    
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  - Benaaasaaas@group.lt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No wiper controls, indicators are a touch control on the wheel…
    
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    JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Which are really easy to use when you have to indicate you are going to leave the next exit on a roundabout, btw.
    
    So easy that Norway is banning the use of Teslas for driving schools.
    
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- Mad_Punda@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s insane.
  
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