Modern mazdas are one example - the touchscreen locks out above 5 miles per hour.
This is only feasible because the physical controls are excellent, and you can basically accomplish anything except typing an address or a song name without the touchscreen as input.
My 2025 CX50 has excellent input controls. It's almost like using a mouse on the center console. Once you realize the home, back button, scroll and enter button are all within a fingers reach, it's very intuitive.
It took about five minutes to master it when I first got the car and I realized how it worked.
On my car, the touchscreen only works when Android Auto or Apple CarPlay are enabled. I'm assuming all newer models are the same.
There are lots of audio control built in the steering wheel too.
I don't find any of it distracting.
That is so sad.
The knob on my CX30 is such a favourite feature for me that I want to rule out car models that don't have a physical input in that location.
Sad to hear that I'm in a minority for loving that input.
I have a new Mazda with CarPlay, you can touch the phone at any time?
Or are you referring to the "extra" touchscreen on some models in addition to the control knob.
Not necessarily a 'phone' but an 'app'; Here WeGo often won't let you pick a route for a destination you looked up if you're moving... I say 'often' because it seems to have a mood where sometimes it works but other times it literally shows a sort of 'cannot do this while vehicle is in motion' blocker...
iOS has had this feature for several versions now, I think it predates focus modes even. But today it lives under that umbrella as the Driving focus, which can activate automatically based on certain kinds of detected motion.
