Car --- volume up
Car --- temperature down
Car --- cruise control
Car --- lights on
Car --- navigate home
Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel. Anything else is a sub-optimal UI that can be improved with some imagination and a little work.
Volume and cruise controls should be controls on the steering wheel. Climate controls can be in the console, but should be physical, as it's typically pretty easy to take a quick glance, then find it without continuing to stare at it, unlike a touch screen.
At least with climate controls give me tactile knobs. Of course someone I know got the new tachoma and they made the 4wd switch exactly the same as the AC/fan knobs which is just so fucking insane. It's like whatever process is used to design these interfaces seeks out the worst way to do it given the requirements.
Idk maybe I just want a dune buggy at this point. At least there's no design by committee corporate brain damage I can't rip out of that.