There are very few core controls and they should absolutely be physical.

I hate screens as much as anyone but I honestly don't think there's much that can't be put behind one.

Climate controls need to be physical, though.
They are safety critical when your windscreen fogs over.
Radio, too. For emergency broadcasts.
And obviously any driving controls, like lights, indicators, cruise control, wipers, …

Basically, anything that was present in a car 30 years ago needs to have physical buttons.

Climate controls need to be physical, though.

I had an 02 Peugot with automated climate controls. Shits not new. it's one of the few cases where I will not go back to the caveman way. automated headlights are another.

a case can be made for demister buttons but I haven't owned a car made this century that would fog up so that's a pull over and figure this shit out for the first time affair not a take your eyes off the road and dick around with controls physical or otherwise affair.

I think my “peak American” was that time many years ago when I went driving down the I35 interstate in rural Kansas…eating a plate of chicken fettuccine alfredo.

It’s OK. The statute of limitations has long passed.

Although, now that I think of it, this might be my peak Italian moment, though I’m not of Italian ancestry…

Anyway, it was delicious.