Lots of car buyers are appalled by the way touchscreens are taking over cars. And who can blame them? Bigger, more feature-stuffed screens tend to yield fewer easy-to-use buttons, more confusing submenus and, ultimately, the overcomplication of a user experience that used to be pretty straightforward. For anybody driving a 12-year-old car—the average age of a vehicle on U.S. roads—the thought of trading a simple volume knob for a big, complicated iPad just doesn’t make sense.
