Yet more needless complexity

A friend of mine got a new car. It has the most amazing array of gadgets I've ever seen. There seem to be cameras all over it, so you can look at a console and, for example, not only see how far behind you an object is (rear-end cameras are so 2006), but if you park nose in in a parking lot, how close your front wheels are to the curb and even if you're centered in the parking space.

My friend likes all that stuff, but what she really wanted was to have a display on the dashboard of the outside temperature. A lot of cars have this and we were sure this car had it too, but there are, if I recall, 9 buttons on the steering wheel and 8 on the console, none of which will yield you the temperature. Here's where I was able to help- not because I have any temperature information seeking expertise, but because I'm not afraid to push buttons. I sense that a lot of people are afraid to just start pushing things, fearing that something will get messed up. I've worked with enough electronics to know that if you pay attention to what you push, there's almost always a way to backtrack and undo whatever damage you may have done.

My car, which is not as nice, has a button that says "Display," and it's not hard to figure out that that will control what's displayed. But here, behind the steering wheel on the dashboard, there are another two buttons, one of which just has kind of a dot on it, I decided to brave it (it's not my car, after all) and if you push that one 5 times you get a temperature display. Great that I could help, but ridiculous that it's hard.