It's a fair question, how does it happen? The faults resemble a lot of problems across the industry, and is even analogous to the new Apple updates, which is a total lack of empathy or care of the person who has to use it. Like the screen behind the steering wheel has this UI like from an early 00s X-box game, and I'm sure when they're in the office, and they know what everything is, they go, "wow, that sure looks futuristic, like an X-box, ship it". And nobody thinks about the fact that your eyeballs use contrast edge detection to discard information, or the fact that in some places you have a bright sun on the screen, or that I might need some information more than some other information. Careless, shameless and ignorant.

Before this, the strangest I had seen was in a new Renault Clio where they had removed the tachometer and instead had a large icon of a green leaf that fades in and out of existence.

I felt like that was peak modern UI "design" but now I know you can do so much worse.