It would be nice if controls were required by law to be the same "UI" in all cars. e.g. shifter is the same in all cars, turn signals, wipers, etc all the things that distract us when driving.

Another pet peeve is microwaves. It takes me a minute to figure out everyone's microwave since none have the same UI. Every microwave designer thinks they know better!

The most fun cars are the early ones. Nobody had any idea what to do so there were many many different approaches. Gas pedals? Ridiculous when you could have a knob!

As Stephenson put it,

> It’s no longer acceptable for engineers to invent a wholly novel user interface for every new product, as they did in the case of the automobile, partly because it’s too expensive and partly because ordinary people can only learn so much. If the VCR had been invented a hundred years ago, it would have come with a thumbwheel to adjust the tracking and a gearshift to change between forward and reverse and a big cast-iron handle to load or to eject the cassettes.