“Please bring back the floorboard mounted dimmer switch and a knob for turning on wipers and headlights. Also vent wing windows would be a nice touch.”
Yep, I’m not too lazy to use knobs. All this revolves around pure laziness. Too lazy to turn a knob... It is incredible how many things have been screwed up because of mass laziness.
Like I always say, we now live in a world where two clicks of a mouse button is one click too many for most because of laziness.
I don’t think it’s so much laziness as it is infatuation with all things tech, both by the buyers and the designers. People (users and designers) rarely take ergonomics (aka, human factors) into account in design because they are chasing the latest and greatest cool gadget.
Interesting tidbit: the Three Mile Island nuclear accident was largely cause by poor human factors design in the control room. So it’s not just confusing controls in automobiles — it happens in industry, too.