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Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?

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238 points Brajeshwar | 4 comments | 20 Sep 25 15:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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Zanni ◴[20 Sep 25 16:33 UTC] No.45314836[source]▶
Depends enormously on the implementation and use case. My daily driver is a Tesla Model 3, which has a big, beautiful touch screen. But I almost never touch it while I'm driving. Anything I need to control can be handled by voice command ("set temp to 70") or the scroll wheels in the steering wheel. (The one irritating exception is the windshield wipers.)
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1. moepstar ◴[20 Sep 25 17:02 UTC] No.45315106[source]▶
> The one irritating exception is the windshield wipers

Push the wiper button (left stalk) once, adjust with left scrollwheel (either up/down if on a recent firmware or left/right if it’s older than a year or so).

Facelift has a dedicated button on the steering wheel I think and then scroll wheel as well…

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2. andruby ◴[20 Sep 25 18:35 UTC] No.45316006[source]▶
Does that work on the model 3 without stalks? Ie: does it have a wiped button on the steering wheel?
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3. YZF ◴[20 Sep 25 18:58 UTC] No.45316225[source]▶
Yes. This was a fairly recent change but you can control the wipers from the steering wheel.
4. Zanni ◴[21 Sep 25 12:42 UTC] No.45322203[source]▶
Awesome - I didn't know this!