{"id":2198288,"date":"2026-10-14T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2198288"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:10:03","slug":"keeping-things-simple-is-the-safest-approach-euro-ncap-on-its-love-of-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2198288","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Keeping things simple is the safest approach\u2019 – Euro NCAP on its love of buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”Article”,”image”:”https:\/\/car-images.bauersecure.com\/wp-images\/274656\/euro-ncap-crash-test-dummy.jpg”,”mainEntityOfPage”:{“@type”:”WebPage”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/car-news\/industry-news\/euro-ncap-hates-touchscreens\/”},”url”:”https:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/car-news\/industry-news\/euro-ncap-hates-touchscreens\/”,”author”:{“@type”:”Person”,”name”:”CJ Hubbard”,”description”:”Former Associate Editor CJ Hubbard is now head of CARu2018s digital content as well as running parent company Bauer Mediau2019s Cars Content Hub and contributing to CAR magazine. Heu2019s been writing about cars professionally for 20 years now, though attempts to hide this fact with an extensive moisturising routine.nAs well as contributing to CARu2018s sister site, Parkers.co.uk, his previous life at specialist automotive editorial agency Motoring Research means heu2019s also written for the likes of PistonHeads, the Sunday Times, City AM, Auto Express and the Microsoft MSN network. He has appeared in print and on video all over the world.nA career starting in 2006 has seen him cover events and create features from locations as diverse as the Australian Outback, the Arctic Circle, the Omani desert, North and South America, India, China, Thailand and Cuba. An enthusiast and a technologist, he approaches the current quickening evolution of all things automotive with an analytical interest that aims to put the driver first, and feels incredible privileged to be experiencing so many of these changes first hand.nHeu2019s driven everything from trikes to articulated trucks, and experienced almost every type of power-source imaginable. Thereu2019s no steam car in the archive, but as well as petrol, diesel and electric, CJu2019s tried LPG, CNG and several varieties of hydrogen, including rotary and V12 as well fuel cell. Heu2019s daily driven a Lamborghini (tough gig; apparently even tougher to stop mentioning it, several years later), crossed Europe in a van, crashed on track, been kinetically recovered, run out of fuel, and even found himself reported as stolen. In Sweden.nCJu2019s personal four-wheeled back catalogue includes E30 and E34 BMWs, Fords fast and slow, multiple MX-5s, a Saab 900, a Nissan Sunny andu2026 a Vauxhall Cavalier. Having not learnt his lesson spending far too much money ITB-modifying an early Eunos Roadster, heu2019s now burning all his spare cash trying to keep a notoriously unfickle 996 alive. A car he bought largely by accident due to its entirely Nephrite Green interior. As such, heu2019s the very embodiment of why you should do your research before buying a car, rather than afterwards, a perspective that usefully comes across more correctly in his writing than his bank account.nFor cat pictures, random musings, and to see just how green that cabin really is, you can find CJ on Instagram, Threads and possibly Bluesky. Heu2019s also on LinkedIn, but is yet to work our quite why. CJu2019s latest CAR articles are listed below.”,”image”:{“@type”:”ImageObject”,”url”:”https:\/\/car-assets.bauersecure.com\/wp-images\/14264\/cjhubbard.jpeg”,”caption”:”CJ Hubbard”},”sameAs”:[“https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cj-hubbard-1a649888\/”,”https:\/\/x.com\/ir_427″,”https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ir_427\/”],”url”:”https:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/author\/cj-hubbard\/”,”alumniOf”:{“@type”:”EducationalOrganization”,”name”:”MA (Distinction) in Motoring Journalism from Coventry University (2005-2006), BA (First) in American Studies (History) from University of Kent (1998-2002)”},”email”:”cj.hubbard@bauermedia.co.uk”,”jobTitle”:”Head of CARu0027s digital content and the Bauer Media Cars Content Hub”,”knowsAbout”:”automotive,road testing,car news,car advice,long-term tests,product testing,car features,feature writing”,”worksFor”:{“@type”:”Organization”,”name”:”CAR magazine”}},”dateModified”:”2026-10-14T16:10:03+01:00″,”datePublished”:”2026-10-14T16:10:03+01:00″,”headline”:”u2018Keeping things simple is the safest approachu2019 – Euro NCAP on its love of buttons”,”publisher”:{“@type”:”Organization”,”name”:”Bauer Media”,”brand”:{“@type”:”Organization”,”name”:”Car Magazine”},”logo”:{“@type”:”ImageObject”,”url”:”https:\/\/car-assets.bauersecure.com\/images\/logos\/car.200×88.png”}}}<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Keeping things simple is the safest approach\u2019 – Euro NCAP on its love of buttons<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n\tBy CJ Hubbard<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished: Today 16:10
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n

\t<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\"Follow\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tFollow Car<\/strong> on Google\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tAdd Car as a preferred source on Google to see more of our latest content\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n

\n
\n