Tech and car firms including Apple are bringing back old-fashioned feature to gadgets and cars that customers love READ MORE: iPhone 15 Pro users are reporting 'annoying' touchscreen issues By Lauren Acton-Taylor For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:55 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 22:55 EDT, 28 September 2024 e-mail View comments Tech and car companies are ditching touch screens and bringing back physical buttons to their products. Despite a surge of touch screens being incorporated into devices for years, some of the world's biggest tech companies are going back to basics.

Many that converted to the touch screen may have had their transformation perceived as their assimilation into modern technology. Experts, however, have hinted the embrace of touch screens was more cost related than any other factor. Companies such as BMW and Volkswagen are taking to implementing buttons instead of having touch screens that divert the driver's attention Tesla are one of the main manufacturers that continue to have full controls through the touchscreen interface, which experts have said are a 'major distraction' Chief executive for Copper, Sam Calisch, sad: 'Now that touch screens are the cheapest option, they're being deployed everywhere, even in places they don't belong,' reported the Wall Street Journal.

The touch screen, while holding many versatile uses, does often find itself in places where it can easily malfunction such as induction stoves with touch-based controls. The design chang.