I would rather see climate control buttons. There is already a physical volume knob on the steering wheel. So there are actually 2 of those and zero of the other. The whole S650 dash is just a disastrous design all together, both physically as well as ergonomically.
There should be a law against removing physical buttons for basic vehicle functions. Even if you employ a thousand former Apple and Tesla designers it will still be unergonomical and outright dangerous.
The interior spy pix have already revealed that Ford is going to make the massive mistake of deleting physical hvac controls. A form of stupidity that the big European manufacturers are already reversing in their latest designs. The S650 dashboard looks to be a total disaster.
I doubt that. Android Automotive is as closed as Sync3 or Sync4 and because it runs large parts of the vehicle user interface Ford will want and need to keep control over it.
I just hope it doesn't end up being a nightmare project like the last time Ford outsourced this type of work (the My...