I'd disagree with your assessment on the change to the steering wheel mounted buttons for turn signals.
As Teriyaki has said:
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Originally Posted by Teriyaki
The buttons will just turn with the wheel. Basically any time the wheel isn't completely centre, you're playing spin the wheel on if you'll be signalling properly.
What about the times you're parked and have your wheels turned and need to signal out of your parking spot but your buttons are upside down now? How this passed multiple layers of management and review boggles the mind.
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There is a functional reason that makes the good ol' turn signal stalk a superior design compared to steering wheel mounted buttons, and the steering wheel mounted buttons create a functional nightmare as far as usability is concerned.
The examples you've cite are also inappropriate in comparison to the turn signal stalk vs buttons example.
Auto vs stick is an entire paradigm change. During normal forward operation, the automatic transmission means you don't really need a stick to function, so you don't really need a shifter 95% of the time when you are driving an automatic car.
Backup camera is a superior technology bcos it enables the driver to see what he cannot see from just learning to drive -- it literally shows you the driver blind spot.
Shifter knob vs buttons aren't functionally too different. It's a matter of preference.
If you haven't used a Blackberry before, the physical keyboard makes its vastly superior for typing compared to the iPhone virtual buttons. The only reason the full touchscreen design won over is because the smart phone operating model shifted from typing-based to a touch-based GUI, so the real estate taken up by a physical KB became a liability instead of a strength, and it went the way of the dodo bird.
With cars, the need to issue turn signals does not change regardless of how it is implemented, at least until telepathy / FSD AI is used. And with the steering wheel mounted buttons, it is functionally deficient compared to the universally accepted and adopted standard.
But like I said -- BMW owners are not gonna miss the turn signal stalk one bit.
