When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
We got a new car.  It comes with a touch screen instead of physical controls.  We really wanted to avoid the screen, but ended up settling on the least offensive / most likely usable for us car vehicle.  There was nothing out there in new car land that we liked.<p>It is no longer safe doing simple things such as turning on/off recirculation.<p>We like fresher air, so generally want recirculation off.  However, it is not uncommon to see a truck in front of us suddenly belch a lot of smoke.<p>In the old car, this was no problem.  Push the recirc button and keep the bad stuff from getting into the car.<p>In the new car, that would require hitting the correct button near the bottom of the screen to cause it to bring up the environmental controls, and then hitting the right button near the now top of the screen to toggle the recirc.  Totally unsafe when in traffic.<p>Add to that the settings that don't stay set every time you turn off the car, requiring manually going through and setting things up - it's not only unsafe but horrible.