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Back before about 1920, there weren't standard interfaces in cars. Pedal arrangements were arbitrary, there were levers to control things like spark advance, stuck wherever the manufacturer liked, and secondary controls were even more random than they are now. There's no reason to go back to those days.
Using a tablet to control a moving car is a dangerously stupid move that regulators should never have allowed. It's even worse than the notoriously shit BMW Tiptronic modal controller of cursed memory.
At least before 1920 there was only a hundred drivers on the road in the whole country!
(Exaggeration but I hope you get the point haha)
I fucking hate the tablets!