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Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'

The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions happened with physical buttons. But

The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions happened with physical buttons. The reality is that the vehicle is so feature-rich, that even if we do a fantastic job in the UI, there will always be prioritization that we need to do in terms of having things one or two menus behind,” Bensaid told TechCrunch after he got off stage. While he said the team inside Rivian “continue[s] to debate that,” he said on stage that he believes leveraging CarPlay is “laziness” and that he prefers to integrate specific apps, like Apple Music.

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