That center console is designed around self driving. If they had planned on the car being human driver for its entire lifecycle from the beginning, they would have put in a regular instrument cluster or a heads up display.
There's no other reason to put all the vehicle information so far away from the center other than planning on eventually phasing out human drivers.
Edit: to be clear, I believe that Tesla was way too optimistic on when self driving would be available, and that over reliance on the center console is a bad design.
There's no other reason to put all the vehicle information so far away from the center other than planning on eventually phasing out human drivers.
Edit: to be clear, I believe that Tesla was way too optimistic on when self driving would be available, and that over reliance on the center console is a bad design.