Touchscreens
After most of the late-1980s CRT touchscreens were withdrawn, touch came back through navigation: Lexus let its map screen run audio and climate from the late 1990s, and by 2008 Porsche and Volkswagen offered touchscreen head units.
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Tesla’s 17-inch portrait touchscreen in the 2012 Model S took over nearly every control, and through the 2010s other makers followed: BMW added touch to iDrive and Audi replaced its knob with two haptic touchscreens. The 2019 Golf moved climate, volume and lighting controls to touch sliders and panels, and was widely criticised for it.
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- Instrument cluster
- Primary input
- Climate controls
- Head-up display
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- Lexus LS (XF20), instrument cluster“The Lexus LS 400 instrument panel” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Jon Evans · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Lexus LS (XF30), instrument cluster“Lexus LS430 Instrument Panel” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Chris Yarzab · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Flickr
- Lexus LS (XF40), cockpit“Lexus LS 2013 launch Cannes (8777897325)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns from Latvia · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Porsche 911 (997), cockpit“P911 Speedster Cockpit” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: KarleHorn · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Volkswagen Golf (Mk6), cockpit“Volkswagen Golf – sixth Generation” (opens in a new tab) · © Volkswagen AG · Editorial use (opens in a new tab) · Volkswagen Newsroom
- Tesla Model S (2012), cockpit“Tesla Model S digital panels” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: jurvetson (Steve Jurvetson) · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Volkswagen Golf (Mk7), cockpit“Volkswagen Golf - seventh Generation” (opens in a new tab) · © Volkswagen AG · Editorial use (opens in a new tab) · Volkswagen Newsroom
- Chevrolet Corvette (C7), cockpit“Corvette Z06 Cabriolet (C7) – Innenraum, 28. Oktober 2015, Düsseldorf” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: M 93 · CC BY-SA 3.0 de (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Tesla Model X (2015), cockpit“Interno tesla model x” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Numobeer · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- BMW 7 Series (G11/G12), cockpit“The new BMW 7 Series - Interior (06/2015).” (opens in a new tab) · © BMW AG · Editorial use (opens in a new tab) · BMW Group Newsroom
- Audi A8 (D5), cockpit“Audi A8: Cockpit” (opens in a new tab) · © AUDI AG · Editorial use (opens in a new tab) · Audi Media Center
- Mercedes-Benz A‑Class (W177), cockpit“2019 Mercedes Benz A-Class Hatchback A 200 (40)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Bindydad123 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Volkswagen Golf (Mk8), cockpit“Volkswagen Golf” (opens in a new tab) · © Volkswagen AG · Editorial use (opens in a new tab) · Volkswagen Newsroom