When I first got my Tesla, the “gas” pedal was annoyingly further forward than the brake pedal. As “full self driving” progressed I drive “manually” increasingly less often and now what once annoyed me is convenient, I can easily rest my foot there near the gas pedal without accidentally pressing it, at the ready to hit the brake pedal if needed which is located next to where my foot sits. It took several years before the design started to make sense and grew on me.

When your car drives more and more autonomously having manual controls that can accidentally be activated start to make less sense, we’re not there yet, but someday there will likely be no steering wheel at all and people will react the same way they are now.