Seeing over the dashboard...

You can easily find seat cushions to elevate you off the seat,
But you're on your own for the blocks on your feet to reach the pedals.

 

I recently sat in a 2026 Prius - I raised the seat as high as it goes. Even though the steering wheel can tilt and telescope, the NHTSA limits the distance between the driver and the steering wheel to 10 inches, preferably 12 inches; so the telescope option is useless. A coworker was punched in the face by her airbag (200 lb force at close range) when her car was barely rear ended at a traffic light. She needed a few surgeries from what is considered a safety measure. She is 5’3”.

 

Believe it -- thing about safety equipment, esp in cars where customer's physical dimension range can be enormous... is they can only be designed to fully protect an acceptable percentile of people on a bell curve, per existing regulation.

Seems funny 5'3" would result in injury in a '26 Prius, when the median height for JDM customers would seem to imply guaranteed protection in a JDM 5th-gen, at that height... if the parts are the same globally. Are there different specs of seat adjustment or cushion or even the whole seat, outside NA? No idea, but someone here will know. And what were the details of your coworker's vehicle and injury? Were they tilling like a sailing ship, pushed way too close to the wheel on cushions?

One thing I didn't know about airbag deployment (and iirc ChapmanF(?) provided a link for)... was the system at least per modern regs, requires explosive-assist retraction of the seatbelt before wheel and window airbags deploy, in order to spare you the injuries earlier systems lacked safeguards against. Which means, if the seatbelt isn't worn properly, it can't protect you as well. Raising your butt using cushions may compromise your protection. Did your coworker have a similar system in her vehicle when she was injured?

I'm nearly 6 ft, so have zero problem seeing my Busy-Forks-like, iPhone-screen'd, 5th-gen dash over the wheel, whilst keeping that 10" - 12" spacing you mentioned. But consider 5th-gen belt retraction does help insure the proper driver distance to wheel iin event of a crash... you won't have to do anything in this situation, just let the system do its thing. On a bell curve