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No, physical buttons in cars are not ‘an anomoly.’
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with Rivian software chief Wassym Bensaid, who told the audience at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference this week that buttons were “a bug...not a feature,” and that soon everything will be controlled through voice. Digital controls like touchscreens have been shown to be less safe than physical buttons because we can’t use our muscle memory to find them while keeping our eyes on the road. Also people hate them!
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