If you enjoy in car entertainment like listening to music or radio podcasts, or if you want to keep your passengers busy during the ride, you should get the best equipment that will allow you to fully enjoy the experience while providing a minimum amount of distractions from the road.

Modern car audio systems frequently come with touchscreen receivers that make handling much easier and more intuitive, but many car owners still stick to older audio technology despite the numerous advantages provided by the recent innovations in this field.

In this article, we’ll go through some of the most significant advantages of a touchscreen receiver in your car. Each advantage has been grouped into three major categories that should be relevant to virtually every car owner, regardless of his or her taste in entertainment.

Safety

Let’s start with the most important feature – additional safety.

Touchscreen receivers improve safety for the driver as well as other passengers in several distinct ways.

 When driving alone, you can use this device to receive phone calls in hands-free mode and stream the audio from your phone, while caller info can be seen on the screen and activation of the call can be done with a single touch.

The same touchscreen device can be used to control an attached rear-view camera, greatly reducing the risk of blind spots or being rear-ended by a careless driver.

Multitasking

Touchscreen receivers typically come with large LCD displays with split-screen functionality, which can be very useful for running several different applications at the same time.

You can easily switch between several modes of entertainment, check GPS navigation, or perform a number of other tasks with a simple flick of your finger. Larger icons on the screen offer another not-so-obvious perk, as they are much easier to take note of while you are keeping your eyes glued on the road.

In other words, with an advanced stereo system that has a large touch-screen, you can do more things without compromising your ability to drive safely.

Convenience

It used to take a lot of effort to find the best radio station and set the volume to a level that suits everyone in the car.

That’s certainly not the case when you get a new model of touchscreen receiver from one of the better car audio shops in the UK. Late generation receivers feature digital menus and are able to memorise your earlier choices, so finding the content you want is much easier.

It’s even possible to use them for ‘dual-zone listening’ and allow backside passengers to watch a movie while the driver listens to his or her favourite road music. That way, everyone is happy.

Having various useful bits of information (such as GPS coordinates) on the same dashboard also really helps, which explains why so many car owners are ready to invest in a touchscreen receiver for their new vehicle.