We need to accept that the car touchscreens are here to stay – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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We need to accept that the car touchscreens are here to stay.

I tend to agree with Jalopnik’s Andy Kalmowitz’s take that people complain too much about being distracted by all the new tech in their cars. You can see it in the surveys of new vehicle owners, where infotainment ranks high among the many hassles. But automakers are getting better about consolidating information on the main screen, and the reduction of hard buttons is certainly cleaner to look at.

Maybe, just maybe, the real distraction isn’t the touchscreens or the ambient lightning. Could it be the pocket computers we take with us everywhere?

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