In order to pursue technological development, the mainstream direction of automotive design is mostly to abandon physical buttons and use touch panels and touch buttons to enhance the technological sense of the whole vehicle. However, the design of full touch is not practical. Fo

In order to pursue technological development, the mainstream direction of automotive design is mostly to abandon physical buttons and use touch panels and touch buttons to enhance the technological sense of the whole vehicle. However, the design of full touch is not practical. For example, the touch-controlled multi-function steering wheel introduced by Volkswagen in some high-end models makes users hope to change it back to the physical button because of the easy to touch. Recently, Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer announced that Volkswagen will cancel the touch buttons on the steering wheel and change them to physical buttons! It means that this is to respond to users' expectations.

In recent years, Volkswagen has successively equipped its high-end models with touch-controlled multi-function steering wheels, such as the R-Line performance models of Arteon, Tiguan, Tiguan Allspace, or the R performance families such as Golf R, Golf R Variant, Tiguan R and T-Roc R, as well as Golf GTI, etc., which have listed touch-controlled steering wheels as one of the highlights. It is emphasized that these high-end models have a more prominent sense of technology and feel.

However, the visual sense of technology does not mean that you have a good user experience. Compared with physical buttons, if the sensing mechanism of the touch button on the steering wheel is more sensitive, it is likely to accidentally touch when turning the steering wheel. In addition, the lack of damping stroke, the feel of the touch when pressed is not as good as the physical buttons, and it is even difficult to confirm whether there is a real operation. Moreover, when actually using Volkswagen's touch steering wheel, in addition to the unsatisfactory feel, it is also easy to feel the module being heated at the touch buttons, which makes the user experience a bit disappointing.

, even in the markets, there are not entirely good reviews, and some buyers hope to change back to the traditional button-type design. In response to consumer demand, Volkswagen CEO Yu Ci previously stated that he would cancel the touch buttons on the steering wheel.

In addition to the touch-controlled steering wheel, Volkswagen has also designed comprehensive touch control for the center console since the 8th generation Golf, canceling the physical operating panel of the air conditioner and audio. However, in actual operation, the car owner also faces poor feedback feel, and because there is no backlight, night recognition is also a problem. However, Volkswagen has not yet decided whether to retain the "Touch Slider" touch train. The 8th-generation Golf facelifted prototype car exposed a few days ago still maintains the current center console design. It is expected that the combination of large screen and Touch Slider center console will also be used on Volkswagen for a period of time.