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vocram | 2 years ago

> I refuse to do work that will kill people

Isn’t a crappy UI on a car something that could kill people?

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emodendroket|2 years ago

In some abstract sense, like how you could say that you should absolutely not drive a car as you could accidentally kill a pedestrian.

Lio|2 years ago

I don't think it's all that abstract.

We know that phone using drivers perform worse than drink drivers. They regularly kill people because they're not concentrating on what's in front of them.

If you change the car's UI from something with low latency[1] to something with much greater latency[2] then you are definitely putting others at higher risk because drivers spend longer not concentrating on driving.

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1. See button, move hand, feel large physical button, look back at road, press button, feel feedback click.

2. See screen, move hand, see screen pops up menu on hand proximity, see menu item, click menu item, miss-press try again, wait for animation, attempt to select feature but hand moves due to bump in the road, move hand again, try to select feature again, miss-press try again, wait for feedback animation, look back at road.