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Originally Posted by TheMaxXHD
If you want all these complex physical buttons and dials, well, you will have to pay, both in money and time. Streamlining the car functions to a single head unit decreases cost and time pressure, because it decreases supply chain pressures, allowing to take advantage of bulk ordering of a single unit (a screen), as opposed to multiple smaller things (like nobs and switches) which will ultimately feed down to the consumer.
Yes, it is cost cutting. It is becoming necessary. Unless you want our vehicle prices to continue to increase at astronomical levels, and wait times that continue to be months on end, if not longer.
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I can replace the buttons; I can replace the HVAC control or the Head unit.
I don't want a single control module that totals the car when it goes bad because of 1 cold solder joint or a bad set of capacitors.
It is cost savings; it is not safe (while we are still driving), and like the simplicity of the electric drivetrain... it is cost savings in manufacturing/parts that is costing the consumer exponentially in the long run. It's a bad deal.