I believe that this was done on purpose. Elon clearly wants the driver seat to really be a passenger seat, in the sense that the buyer of the Tesla would simply

I believe that this was done on purpose. Elon clearly wants the driver seat to really be a passenger seat, in the sense that the buyer of the Tesla would simply pop on Autopilot and then be able to focus this attention on the screen. I personally think that this is incredibly wistful thinking on his part, but to his credit if he didn't think big, Tesla wouldn't have gone anywhere.