YES! The Maverick has buttons!

[robbyrob]

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. Buttons are back!
https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touchscreens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html

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[A Dodge that drives Fords]

I 100% agree! My wife's Taurus is 80% controlled by the touch screen. I told her if it would ever go out. We couldn't even switch where the vents blow. As well as other controls. I love that the Maverick's climate control is all buttons and knobs.

 

[OleFordGuy]

Awesome. That's great news. I hope it sinks in their head and the designs. IMO anything frequently accessed/used need a physical button/dial, etc. To me its distracting and takes longer to flip through screens/menus etc than a quick touch of a button dial. But everyone has their own preferences.

 

[janderson85]

My wife mentioned this the other day on how much easier the climate control was in the maverick compared to our fusion.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Right now it's a real mixed bag in the industry for physical buttons vs touchscreen controls. Even manufacturers are all over the place depending on the model. I love that Maverick has physical controls but that is not the case with my wife's 2022 Edge. That thing is full touch screen. It does have a physical volume button for the radio but climate controls, heated seats, heating steering wheel, etc are all touch screen. It's awful and she hates it. She thought she would get used to it but it's so distracting. She came from a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had awesome physical buttons. Unfortunately due to the car shortage she had to settle for the Edge and it's awful controls. Luckily we leased it.
I'm hopeful that car manufacturers will steer this trend in the right direction and use more physical buttons but I'm worried it will go more toward touch screens.

 

[Vince30]

I like that the heated seats / steering wheel are buttons because I adjust those a lot, but for the climate, how often are you guys adjusting yours where that's an issue? Personally, I don't touch the blower speed or the vents, and occasionally I'll move the climate a couple degrees. I've never not had physical buttons, so maybe my opinion would change if I had to live with it, but I don't really understand the hate for them on cars with auto climate control, other than the fear that if the screen breaks your climate control stops working.

 

[WellKnownHermit]

but I don't really understand the hate for them on cars with auto climate control, other than the fear that if the screen breaks your climate control stops working.

Imagine you are driving on a cold and wet winter day, and you pull into an underground parking garage. You lower the window, take the ticket from the dispenser, the gate goes up, and you pull forward. Suddenly the warm blast from the garage hits the inside of the windshield and it is suddenly covered in fog, condensation, etc. Do you stop? Does the gate come down on your truck ? Or do you go forward and hope that you remember the arc of the entrance ramp, while you navigate through a couple of screens to turn on the defrost.

i have driven a few dozen cars in the last three years. I was in a situation where I rented often. Not one car with full touch screen controls was a pleasure to use. They are all cumbersome, and a few of the ones I had didn't work well with gloves, so I had to take my gloves off to turn on the heat.

 

[Skifletch]

I like that the heated seats / steering wheel are buttons because I adjust those a lot, but for the climate, how often are you guys adjusting yours where that's an issue? Personally, I don't touch the blower speed or the vents, and occasionally I'll move the climate a couple degrees. I've never not had physical buttons, so maybe my opinion would change if I had to live with it, but I don't really understand the hate for them on cars with auto climate control, other than the fear that if the screen breaks your climate control stops working.

I'm adjusting all the time based on weather conditions. Especially in the spring/fall when temps swing WILDLY. I've yet to meet the climate control system that accurately assess all the variables involved. Also I don't enjoy running the A/C compressor constantly which the climate control features are all want to do. Ultimately I know how to make myself comfortable with the tools better than the machine does.

 

[commadorebob]

I never understood why EVs all have gigantic screens. If I'm trying to squeeze every foot of range out of the batteries, a gigantic, always on back-lit screen seems to do the opposite.

 

[Rockingchair]

Last year there was a race up Pikes Peak. One of the lead cars lost because his windshield fogged. The driver was not familiar enough with the heat controls on the Tesla he was driving to find the defrost controls quickly and had to slow down to find them.

 

[Vince30]

Imagine you are driving on a cold and wet winter day, and you pull into an underground parking garage. You lower the window, take the ticket from the dispenser, the gate goes up, and you pull forward. Suddenly the warm blast from the garage hits the inside of the windshield and it is suddenly covered in fog, condensation, etc. Do you stop? Does the gate come down on your truck ? Or do you go forward and hope that you remember the arc of the entrance ramp, while you navigate through a couple of screens to turn on the defrost.

i have driven a few dozen cars in the last three years. I was in a situation where I rented often. Not one car with full touch screen controls was a pleasure to use. They are all cumbersome, and a few of the ones I had didn't work well with gloves, so I had to take my gloves off to turn on the heat.

I'm having a hard time imagining this scenario because in my short 15+ years of driving nothing remotely similar to this has ever happened. Every time I've had a window fog up so much I couldn't see I was barely from where it was parked. Even with the physical defrost button, I doubt the window is going to clear up before the gate comes down in your scenario anyways.

I'm adjusting all the time based on weather conditions. Especially in the spring/fall when temps swing WILDLY. I've yet to meet the climate control system that accurately assess all the variables involved. Also I don't enjoy running the A/C compressor constantly which the climate control features are all want to do. Ultimately I know how to make myself comfortable with the tools better than the machine does.

So some of you do mess with them often I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I know what temperature I'm comfortable in, and I assume the car knows the most efficient way to get it there based on the temp of the air it can push. Not a fan of getting blasted with cold air on a cold day right when I get in the car so I appreciate that it takes care of that for me.

 

[mikellmikell]

When I worked at Delco we did a lot of consumer research and buttons win for most task. People didn't like looking at a screen

 

[WellKnownHermit]

So some of you do mess with them often I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I know what temperature I'm comfortable in, and I assume the car knows the most efficient way to get it there based on the temp of the air it can push.

Do you have a Lariat with the automatic climate control? I've had several cars over the years with automatic climate controls and yes, set it and forget it. But the XL and XLT don't have that. If it's 40 degrees out this morning I'll want warm air, and when the afternoon sun gets the temps up to 75 I'll want cool air.

 

[Snowbird]

I hate touch screens. There is no way I can make adjustments without taking my eye off the road.

 

[Vince30]

Do you have a Lariat with the automatic climate control? I've had several cars over the years with automatic climate controls and yes, set it and forget it. But the XL and XLT don't have that. If it's 40 degrees out this morning I'll want warm air, and when the afternoon sun gets the temps up to 75 I'll want cool air.

I do have the lariat with auto climate, but I'm pretty sure all Mavericks have it, but the lariat gets dual zone instead of the single on the others.

And for climate controls behind screens, I'm only thinking for auto climate, if it's not auto than it definitely needs to be adjusted regularly and should be very easy to access, I agree with that.

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