China Takes Aim at Screen-Heavy Car Dashboards in Safety Push

China is taking aim at stripped-down, screen-dominated car interiors favored by the likes of Tesla Inc. and Xiaomi Corp., requiring that essential safety functions be controlled by physical switches or buttons.

In a set of proposed regulations, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that functions including turn signals, hazard lights, gear selection and emergency calling must have fixed buttons or switches with a minimum surface size of 10mm x 10mm.