We need something better than touchscreens in cars

I live in the Greater Strasbourg area, and nearby, 30 kilometres away or so, there is a certain small-volume car manufacturer that understood years ago, before it was cool, that touchscreens in cars tend to age poorly. I love what they do instead of putting every command behind a fancy touchscreen: they try to give each of the main commands its own physical button, without relying on a capacitive piece of glass, as if we were still living in the first 120 years of the 140-year-old car industry.*1 There was no such screen in their previous flagship model (2005–2015), resulting in an interior that ages quite well compared to other interiors from the same era (imagine the resolution of these screens). Their recently-retired model, despite being released in 2016, doesn’t offer a single touchscreen either, and in the upcoming model, the screen only appears when needed, for instance, for GPS navigation. I’m not even sure if it’s touch-enabled. Why are such “simple” straight-to-the-point…