VW Kills Contact-Delicate Steering-Wheel Controls—Good Riddance

• Volkswagen is changing its touch-sensitive (haptic) steering-wheel management panel in favor of extra user-friendly bodily buttons.
• The information comes by way of LinkedIn submit from CEO Thomas Schäfer who mentioned the swap is occurring following buyer suggestions and requests to revert to the outdated format.
• We reached out to Volkswagen and are ready to seek out out which automotive is getting the brand new steering-wheel controls first, and when clients can count on the change.

Volkswagen is listening to its clients’ complaints and, extra vital (we’re kidding), to ours, about haptic controls. Thomas Schäfer, the CEO of Volkswagen Passenger Vehicles, took to Linked In to make the announcement final week. “We’re sharpening our portfolio and our design, plus creating a brand new simplicity in working our autos,” mentioned Schäfer. “For instance, we’re bringing again the push-button steering wheel! That is what clients need from VW.” Lastly.

One thing as small as steering-wheel controls could seem mundane, however the return to bodily wheel controls could be very welcome. We have lengthy complained about ease-of-use points with the haptic system. Living proof, editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga wrote in his assessment of the 2022 GTI about unintentionally activating the heated steering wheel: “Begin hustling the automotive and you will find your arms sweating, not due to the work, however as a result of your palm unintentionally switched on the heated steering wheel.” Ideally, reverting to bodily buttons will permit spirited driving sans petri dish arms.

As of now, the $25,000 Taos is the one automobile in Volkswagen’s North American lineup with bodily buttons on the steering wheel. We’ve requested VW when clients ought to count on to begin seeing bodily buttons on the steering wheel once more, and on which vehicles. We’ll let you realize once we discover out.

Now if solely Volkswagen will do one thing concerning the lack of quantity knob and actual local weather controls . . .

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