There is nothing more annoying than going to turn up the AC in a new car, only to find the whole system is controlled by a convoluted touchscreen.
It turns out that drivers much prefer buttons over touchscreens for vital car processes, something designers should have already known. In 1986, Buick became the first company to release interior touchscreens, and you guessed it, everybody hated them.
See a few photos of that system and more in this collection of fascinating photos.
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A woman checks her phone seconds before a stabbing in NYC, 2023.
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A 20-sided die from Egypt, 200 BC.
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“Jupiter and Saturn in broad daylight through my telescope yesterday morning.”
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Buick created the first car touchscreen in 1986. The technology was dropped because customers were complaining about taking their eyes off the road.
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The only time Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met face-to-face. X was assassinated 11 months later.
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Cassius, a 120-year old, 18-foot crocodile weighing nearly 3000 pounds.
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Man with tattoos and body modification, taken by Stanley Kubrick, 1948, New York.
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This tree engulfed a sign that was nailed to it.
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Rural homestead life in 1927. A goat is brought in to feed a new child whose mother is unable to feed it.
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Cement block anti-tank traps from World War 2.
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The world’s largest musical instrument is a 3.5-acre stone organ hidden inside the Luray Caverns in Northern Virginia. The Great Stalacpipe Organ transforms stalactites into a vast, natural musical instrument.
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Bangkok's “Sky Spaghetti.” A combination of telephone, electric and cable wires all sharing the same concrete pole.
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A soccer field in Erfjordsbotn, Norway.
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A specially designed Piano for people confined to bed rest,1935.
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Found on the sea floor next to the wreckage of the Titanic, taken this year.
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Sydney, Australia. Local council retaliates after case of mass tree vandalism.
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Clearest picture of ISS from the ground.
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The Giant of Pratolino is a gigantic statue by Giambologna, a masterpiece of sixteenth-century sculpture located a few kilometers from Florence.
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A photo of a replica of the Daimler Reitwagen, first built in 1885. It is widely considered to be the world's first true motorcycle. The original was destroyed in a fire in 1903.
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The Australian mirror, or sequined spider.
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Robert Downey Jr. photographed after being sentenced to three years in prison, 1999.
