I spent most daylight hours yesterday driving in torrential rains in pretty bad visibility, and I was astonished how many cars didn’t have their lights on.
I read up about it, and it turns out that the issue wasn’t as much forgetfulness or carelessness. Rather, it all might have to do with iconography.
The left icon with two lights facing away from each other means the parking lights. The far-right icon with one light pointing slightly down (“low beams”) is regular driving lights. The latter is the right thing to do in the rain, but the assignment feels kind of arbitrary to me, and I could totally see the icons going the other way.
That’s a lot of stuff going on, and many similar icons that do not appear immediately understandable. The whole interface seems optimized for motor memory, but harder to approach at first.
