[TheSpiceIsLife]

I don't follow how that interior design, with important information for the driver off to the right, can pass safety regulations.

Presumably an exception is made because the car (mostly?) knows the speed limit and alerts if you exceed? I'm making s wild guess here.

Maybe it's actually less distracting than having instrumentation in front of you? I'd like to hire on for a few days when the opportunity arises.

[83457]

My wife's has driven a Yaris for 10+ years which has everything on center console. You get used to it within minutes of driving it. Obviously it is perfectly legal

[Tepix]

Here's the law for Germany:

StVZO: ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvzo_2012/__57.html )

    B. Fahrzeuge

    III. Bau- und Betriebsvorschriften

    §57 Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät und Wegstreckenzähler

    (1) Kraftfahrzeuge müssen mit einem im unmittelbaren Sichtfeld des 
    Fahrzeugführers liegenden Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät ausgerüstet sein.

Translated: "the speedometer has to be in the immediate field of vision of the driver". It's somewhat murky.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Yaris which has everything on center console

Last time that I drove a Yaris, and that was a few years back, there was a Head Up Display which put a few things against the windscreen, directly in front of the driver.