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It wouldn’t surprise me if they were dummy or dramatically simplified graphics just to make people more comfortable. Planet Money had a show on this topic a fe
by thanatos_dem 9y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if they were dummy or dramatically simplified graphics just to make people more comfortable. Planet Money had a show on this topic a few years back - https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=427467598 https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
They drew a comparison to the early days of elevators, when everyone was terrified of them, especially after transitioning away from having a lift operator controlling it. The solution at the time was the big red emergency stop button.
- stevenwoo 9y agoThe first elevators in Europe (mostly legacy ones in Germany now I think) that never stop and don't have doors still terrify me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster