i looked at mine this morning and it seems more like the buttons are made of that green glow in the dark stuff... not really light at all, but visible in a dark enough setting
i like that they're dim. no distractions. i view brightly lit crap in my car as "light pollution" i use the little bumps on the buttons to find where everything is.
Mine are definitely backlit. They are controlled by the light switch. If they were not, why would BT Tech In his post entitled "Any interest in adj illuminated s/w buttons??, New possible product"'make the following statement? "What I had in mind was to simply use the existing illumination control to vary the brightness of the switches on the S/W. The same way that it controls the dash lighting and the MFD." http://priuschat.com/Any-interest-in-adj-i...ons-t14848.html