Car electronics have already gotten stupid, IMHO. I took my mother car shopping in 2000. She had her heart set on an Acura sedan. The one they gave us to test drive had the screen in the middle of the dash that handled the navigation system, the HVAC, and maybe some other stuff. Nobody in the car, not me, not the salesman, and especially not my mother, could figure out how to get the navigation system to stop giving verbal directions to us. It was embarassing. These systems are clearly inferior to manual systems and it pisses me off that they keep forcing this crap on us.

BMW has that big knob that is supposed to control everything. I've never tried to use it, but when it came out nobody could figure it out. It's crazy. Give me a lever or knob marked with red and blue to indicate hot and cold and another lever or knob with icons showing where the air is going. I will take that system over a computerized system any day of the week.