On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Cor van de Water via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did not know you need to be a tech junkie > to understand and confirm the on-screen warning message > "You must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times > and take over the driving as needed" > when you engage "autopilot". No, but it helps. As quaint as this may sound, the world of computers is different from the world of cars. At least in terms of user interface. How often do you habitually click through dialog boxes on your way to opening a computer application? (And how often has that caused a problem?) Could it be that confirming the Tesla on-screen message becomes blind habit after a few times? I do understand that we're in a transition here, with cars becoming rolling computers. But perhaps it's worth re-examining that user interface. The consequences of not paying attention aren't so bad when you're launching a favorite feature in your entertainment system. It's quite another matter when it applies to vehicle guidance. These are the things that turn up when you do a thorough human factors evaluation on a game-changing new use of technology. Unfortunately it's frequently not done in the tech world because very few new tech apps are life-critical. You know, just launch it and see how many people bite. You can't do that with life-critical tech and blindly expect smooth sailing. A long time ago you could get into any unfamiliar car and make use of all its features. That's been harder to do for the last decade or so and the trend continues, but driver aids or autonomy or whatever you want to call them are putting a distinct inflection point in that curve. We need to deal with that. At what point does one need training to properly drive an unfamiliar car, like a pilot needs training to fly a new type of aircraft? High tech being used properly by Everyman is actually a pretty difficult thing to pull off well. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160729/a809447e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
