European car safety body is coming for touchscreens
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The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches.

Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority.

The European New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) is revamping its rating system starting Jan. 1, 2026 to mandate that five of a car’s primary controls — its horn, windshield wipers, turn signals, hazard warning lights and SOS features — will need physical buttons or switches.

Car models will have to comply to get NCAP’s coveted five-star rating. The scheme is voluntary but is heeded by most automakers because it’s closely monitored by consumers.

Belgium-based NCAP says that purely digital controls are a potential safety issue.

  • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    except of course for the blatant racism against non-western people, the current shift towards neofash politics (meloni etc), the militarization and the impeding economic collapse.

    All of which already happen in the US, but worse.

    The entire world sucks, can’t we be happy of living in a place that sucks a bit less?

    • я не из калининградаEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      i do acknowledge that that things are worse in the us, but that doesnt make the deficiencies in europe any better. one shouldnt just accept that the world sucks, but start fighting for a better one. just look at cubas success

      • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        We are fighting for a better one. All those recent EU regulations are doing exactly that.

        I’d love if we could address those issues you’ve listed too, since they’re obviously more important, but it seems really hard until the european left actually wakes up and starts promoting actual candidates.