[richbell]

> The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind

By this logic isn't everyone who is pro-touchscreens also a hivemind?

> Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.

Many people are demonstrably bad drivers who are over-confident in their ability and down-play the risk of distractions. When drunk driving was made illegal, people were furious and insisted they were fine to drive drunk and that it was perfectly safe: https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg

Touchscreens, while convenient and extensible, are demonstrably inferior to static physical controls for saftey-critical contexts.