For the most part, car technology has been evolving in a way that has made our lives easier and more comfortable. From keeping cool or warm depending on the season, to listening to music on a road ...

Even when they were brand new, capacitive touch buttons on the steering wheel didn't seem like the greatest idea, but Volkswagen soldiered on, and now it's getting sued over them. A new class action ...

VW faces a new lawsuit over its use of capacitive touch controls. The lawsuit claims that the touch areas on the steering wheel are too easy to activate and have become safety hazards. At least one VW ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Despite much higher production costs, Maranello is reverting to real buttons. For years, we’ve had to listen to nearly all automakers refer to haptic buttons as a beneficial evolution of car interior ...

A Ferrari dealership in Atlanta is offering a new steering-wheel center that replaces haptic touch buttons with physical ones. Capacitive touch steering controls faced criticism for usability issues ...