My dacia spring has it exactly like that 😁

You feel how you physically move the airways by rotating the wheel where you choose the air coming out

Fuck that, give me a thermostat any day of the week.

This works well and it's not a hill I'll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it's done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I've never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.

how hard do you want it? how hot do you want it? where do you want it?

Por que no los dos?

That has 5 moving parts, while a touchscreen has none. It's much easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to install the touchscreen. But instead of passing the savings to you, they probably keep it or pass it on to investors.

I almost agree with this, but I prefer just one more advancement over this: the thermostat kind. I like to just set the temperature so I don't have to keep adjusting it.

Nothing fancy, no touchscreen bs, just simple knobs. I was perfectly happy with the thermostat feature in my old 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.

The next thing will be: I can't toggle my AC because AWS is down.

Everything after THIS was a mistake.

1985 Nissan 300ZX

I've got an old car and it's still like this. I don't look forward to the day I have to get a new car.

But I don’t think seat warmers came with cars with these controls?

Sorry internet, I love the auto climate.

This should be mandatory by law. Touch screens should not exist in cars for drivers.

I disagree. I like that I can set my temperature to an exact number and the car will automatically adjust to that temp. We should have stopped there. No need for touch screens. That’s was the holy grail of temperature control.

I’d argue split climate for the driver and passenger seat is the only important missing innovation.

Only missing a night picture with the red LED backlight on

Yes the temp sensor is a worthy addition to the formula. Imagine fiddling with your 80s/90s A/C running on ye olde R-12 to get the temperature right lol.

Hard disagree with this. Climate control has become a must for me since the early 2000s. Set and forget is always better than fiddling with things. And now my current car has three levels of automatic so it doesn't go full blast at the beginning, it's amazing.

Yours is a decade or two past the true ideal. Not pictured: the 5-inch sliding control that mechanically adjusted between recirculated and exterior air and the drivers and passengers pull-knob by the feet that let exterior air flow in directly. A heavenly touring experience.

Also on the one pictured in your post, I find those lit press to toggle ac and def buttons with indicator lights wore out over time and required a ton of force to switch on the cars I've had with them.