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Wed 11 Nov 2002Look before you listenShould we have a degree in button-pushing? Modern dashboards are gettingmore like aircraft controls. Brian Byrne calls for a dose of sanityThe signature tune for Coronation Street wafted out of the car's speakers. Then as we pulled up to the traffic lights and set the handbrake the screen in the dash of the Rover 75 switched from blank to the opening sequence of the night's Corrie action.