Your next car will look more like a Tesla in one controversial way

When the Tesla Model S was released a decade ago, it was unlike anything else on the market. And I'm not talking about the fact that it's electric -- I mean the interior design. Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's lead designer, put an enormous 17-inch vertical touchscreen in the center of the car. It dominates the dash, and you control nearly everything in the car through it -- for better or worse. "Everything that we do at Tesla has to be beautiful," said von Holzhausen in July 2017 at the launch of the Tesla Model 3. "But beauty is only great if it's functional."