Claire (Host)
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first heard Aug 2026
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The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, part of the Chinese government that regulates
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Vehicle sales and type approval is drawing up plans requiring car makers to include physical cabin buttons for key functions.
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Well, for more on this, I'm joined by N Neil Briscoe, motoring journalist with the Irish Times and Complete Car dot IE.
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Good morning to you, Neil.
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Tell us I mean t tell us about this.
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Good morning, Claire.
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P many people will be hailing the return of the traditional button over these sort of new
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Ufangled controls that are can be pretty hard to manage if you're also trying to
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Control a car on the road.
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Yeah, tell us about some of the more outlandish functions that have gone touch screen.
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That's like Tesla.
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They they've turned gear selection I'm not just highlighting Tesla, a lot lots of cars which are embracing new technology are doing it, but in Tesla's case they're turning gear selection over to on screen control, aren't they?
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they can be tricky enough to find in a regular car with normal uh with normal buttons as well, though those those fog lights and those little um uh those little levers to ensure you're doing a safe drive.
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But it it the the safety issues around going fully electric and people changing the design of of cabins, haven't we heard of people trapped in cars? 'Cause the only solution to opening a door was an electronic one.
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Okay, so what are going what are these new regulations going to demand and what sort of changes are we likely to see down the line in cars here?
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So this pushback isn't just coming from uh Chinese authorities.
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What car brands uh remind us of the of the the car brands in China um that will be affected uh by these plans if they go ahead, if if China's getting on board with all these changes uh quicker than Europe is.
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Now, people will think of Tesla as as the company that had has progressed this, I suppose, to an extreme, perhaps in the touch screen mentality of driving.
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They have plants in the US and in China and Germany.
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Like how it's how is it going to impact on their manufacturing?
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