HYUNDAI

Company develops tactile keys for direction
Touch screens have been gaining space in cars for many years now and although there are many models that integrate a touch screen in the center console, there are also several models that have a different interface, such as BMW Connected Drive system, which uses a dial-type command, the iDrive.
Although we are already accustomed, perhaps a touch screen is not the most convenient option when talking about possible distractions, in this sense more efficient a system like BMW, and even more advanced voice control systems that many vehicles use.
But Hyundai's engineers seem determined to go further by installing tactile screens on the steering wheel to replace the multifunction steering wheel buttons.
At the moment it is only a prototype that the Korean brand created in 2015, and has been perfecting since then, with the purpose of integrating this technology in the future in some of its production models.
Hyundai says it is a system that will reduce distractions. According to the manufacturer, the two tactile screens on the steering wheel vary the pressure offering an active feedback.
The system is completed with configurable digital instrumentation with three-dimensional graphics, in addition to the usual infotainment system screen located in the center console.
We do not know if this idea will finally come to production, but at least that's the idea. Some brands had to backtrack after introducing some touch controls, as it did with Honda with the current Civic, which in its mid-life upgrade returned with the dial volume control it had lost with the arrival of the current generation after customers complain about their complicated interface. Autonews