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Are Physical Buttons And Knobs Making A Comeback?


Some car designers are turning from touchscreen controls back to physical buttons. Two researchers explain why that could be better.

IRA FLATOW: Rachel Plotnick is an associate professor in The Media School at Indiana University in Bloomington and author of Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. RACHEL PLOTNICK: And I think that’s an interesting facet too as we see artificial intelligence and automation coming to cars, that one thing I’ve noticed is that people in some ways might become even hungrier for buttons to that point of I want that agency. IRA FLATOW: Rachel Plotnick, associate professor in The Media School at Indiana University in Bloomington, author of Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing.

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