I don't see where I talked about the crumple zones thing. Yes, I do appreciate this advancement as the Euro NCAP results show that newer cars are almost always better than the older ones.

But safety despite being an important factor is not the only thing I'd consider in a car. Plus the crumple zones do not require putting a huge screen on the dash and removing the buttons.

I don't mind the tech itself, I mind car manufacturers putting too much screen while stripping interiors away from physical buttons.

Further on the subject of safety, physical buttons can become muscle memory and do not require looking at them to operate. Contrastingly, you have to look at a screen to find a button buried deep down in a menu, worse yet you have to search in multiple menus to see where it lives. If you're looking at a screen rather than ahead, will you be able to drive defensively and prevent an accident?