"Upon opening the code I discovered the entire program was a carefully constructed slide show with hundreds of jpgs in a jQuery carousel and some magic click ar

"Upon opening the code I discovered the entire program was a carefully constructed slide show with hundreds of jpgs in a jQuery carousel and some magic click areas coded in to jump the user between slides." Based on my narrow understanding of "standard issue practices" in car dashboard UI:s workflows, this was a common pattern at least at one major German automobile company. Static views and transition rules between them. I was a bit involved in dashboard software a decade ago and was really surprised to learn this.