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What many of us can agree on is that modern cars have too many touch screens. In particular, caution is required when using the air conditioner frequently, such as in a car. Porsche showed us the interior of its next Cayenne SUV, but in Stuttgart it looks like the button is back in the menu. at least some.
The almost entirely touchscreen user interface was probably the only thing Porsche failed to do in the otherwise excellent Taycan. Indeed, when Audi used that car’s platform to create its own electric express e-tron GT, the climate control touchscreen was gone and replaced with real buttons to make things hotter and hotter. It was noteworthy that it got colder and more or less windy.Unlike the Taycan, the e-tron GT also doesn’t require you to use the touchscreen to aim for the air vents.
It is therefore encouraging to see the Porsche design team listening to feedback. Because the Cayenne’s refreshed interior incorporates plenty of Taycan-like touches in many other ways.
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Like the electric Porsche, the curvaceous main instrument display has no shrouds or binnacles. (The screen surface has an anti-glare coating, so it is always readable even on sunny days with sunglasses on.)
If you’ve driven a Taycan or a Porsche 911, the steering wheel will look familiar. As the familiar shift lever is retired from another Porsche, so is the knurled metal lever used to move forward or backward.
But the air vents are again manually directed, and the center console has physical switches for controlling temperature and ventilation.
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I asked Porsche what prompted the change.In the wake of the Taycan, I wonder how they decided which controls belonged on the touchscreen and which needed dedicated switches, buttons or knobs. ?
“So there are two things that are important to us. First … we look at things that are analogues and that come from our traditions, which are very important for delivering this brand identity, for example. , the drive mode switch is a good example of this,” explains Ivo van Hulten, Director of User Experience Design at Porsche.
(Van Hulten prefers to use the term Driver Experience: “We are a sports car brand because we have a big sports car heritage. We decided to call it Driver Experience. . [Porsche]the driver is arguably the most important person in the car,” he said.
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“There’s other things that we always have feedback from customers, so we learn from how people interact with the system. If we want, we can also check. [a box]give your data back to Porsche and we’ll learn from it,” he told Ars.
“But we also do extensive research with our customers. We do a lot of these sessions in all the markets around the world. We know that physical control of is very important.
“Maybe with the Taycan it was very important to free ourselves from the past and show what we can do by designing a full battery vehicle. It’s very digital, so for this generation [of Cayenne]again we found that we wanted to add a little more analog flavor,” said van Hulten.
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It’s too early for Porsche to release any details about the Taycan’s mid-life update, but a year or two later, we’ll see a facelifted Porsche EV that may have been part of a campaign to bring back the buttons. think.
