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Mazda Admits It Was Wrong About Touchscreens, Bets On Steering Wheel Controls
The brand still believes in 'hands on the wheel, eyes on the road' as a safety mantra, but digital controls are coming anyway.
For the past several years, Mazda has remained the sole mainstream holdout in the broader industry push toward touch-based infotainment systems, relying instead on a now-anachronistic, console-mounted dial. “We believe that now with the integration of Google Assistant, which is very critical with the voice command and this newly designed steering wheel, that we can offer this together with this large touchscreen so that we don’t have the situation where people want to control parts of the vehicle and are not focused on the road,” Meisterfeld said. It’s Mazda’s hope that this integration of different technologies will strike a balance between satisfying customers’ interests in the latest tech and preserving occupant safety.
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