[jimmyswimmy]

It's not. But at the margin it is. If you already have a touch screen display then adding a button costs next to nothing on a per car basis.

And there are a ton of solenoids in cars so they can probably reuse one and save the cost of the manual latch.

Not to mention the Apple-esque design ideals that eradicated headphone jacks. You now have a cleaner looking passenger side of the dashboard.

None for me, thanks.

[williamcotton]

Auto-manufacturers are still buying manual latch mechanisms in bulk as well for their non-luxury cars.

A demand for Apple-esque design seems more plausible!

[fomine3]

Or say, most manufacturer want to be like Tesla