Ferrari admits touch-sensitive steering wheel buttons were a mistake – report
The Italian supercar brand has acknowledged that replacing physical buttons with touch sensors was “probably too advanced” and “not 100 per cent perfect” for the car.
Ferrari 296 GTS steering wheel.
Ferrari has owned up to its mistake of implementing fiddly touch-sensitive buttons on its steering wheels, and has committed to replacing them with physical controls on future models.This revision follows a similar backflip by Volkswagen, which has vowed to “never, ever
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