One consistent downside of the digital revolution inside modern cars and trucks has been the tendency to rely on software to pick up the slack when cutting production costs, smoothing out interior design, or attempting to monetize every waking moment a vehicle is occupied.Screens might be cheap, but the safety and convenience costs of implementing a poorly thought-out user interface can be high.

In-car software interfaces continue to fall into the same ‘bad UI’ traps even though we’re more than a decade into these types of system designs. Here are four of the most troubling oversights and design flaws that regularly rear their head as screens strive to do everything everywhere all at once, for Driving.ca.