The Passenger Seat Never Got an Instrument Panel
Daniel noticed something that's been sitting in plain sight for a hundred years: cockpit designers build integrated systems for two people, but the car gives the front passenger nothing — or one centre tablet two people can't safely share. So where's the co-pilot tablet? Turns out the screens shipped starting with the 2020 Porsche Taycan, and they're now standard in the 2026 BMW 7 Series. But the marketing says TikTok and Zoom calls, not navigation and fault diagnosis. Jeep's Grand Wagoneer comes closest to the real co-pilot job — then says its display "complements, rather than mirrors" the…
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