According to our survey of 1,216 Which? members, carried out in June 2024, some of the car technology people considered unnecessary included touchscreens (56%) zoned climate control (53%), lane sensors (53%) and automatic full beam lights (50%).
However, people were more positive about car technology such as parking sensors and automatic windscreen wipers.
Perhaps because I am (or was before retirement) an Information technology professional, which included managment of software and hardware customer support for the Australian division of a Japanese company, and I still fiddle with microprocessor projects, building, designing printed circuits and programming for fun, I quite like a lot of the tech in a modern car.
We are going to reduce the family fleet by one in the near future (we really can't justify to cost of two cars plus the Morgan). I insist on having all of the list above, plus adaptive cruise control. The only one I would willingly do without is the lane sensors but you are going to get that with the package anyway.
As far as zoned climate control is concerned you often find that the driver, who is more active, requires cooler air than the passengers who (should) have a less active roll in the car. I drive with lights on all the time if the car does not have automatic lights. The Jag is always set to automatic and it works well, including the full beam. Given the intensity of modern headlights it is more the automatic dipping to low beam that is important rather than automatic full beam.
The actual make has not been decided but it will be one of those combi type things which is based on a small van. It will suit our luggage carrying requirements when we go on holidays, or transfer to the "summer palace" and must be able to carry 2 bikes in order to expand our range when we want to go for a pedal somewhere.