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> So yes, small things are important, but BIG things are even more important. Totally agree. > Let's fix those before thinking that cars need UI/UX designers

> So yes, small things are important, but BIG things are even more important. Totally agree. > Let's fix those before thinking that cars need UI/UX designers more than safety engineers. "Let's fix big things before we even think about fixing small things". Which is silly. We can try to improve multiple things at once. We can improve easy small hanging fruit before we improve harder things. This is a false dichotomy I think. Anyway, all tesla vehicles already have automatic emergency braking, so I don't really understand why you went on such a long rant to argue for adding that instead of voice commands. The car under discussion has both, which seems better than having just one or the other.

africanboy 6y ago
> Which is silly. We can try to improve multiple things at once. Which is naif. There is a limited amount of time and resources that a company can spend on features , prioritizing big things is always the sensible choice. In the specific case of cars, they can't be patched after reaching the market and usually a recall is issued only after something serious has already happened. Thake the example linked below that made the front page: A Tesla car speeds on autopilot when both seats are reclined in sleep mode. Tesla overlooked safety to provide useless features. If they had put big things first, the car would completely stop if the driver seat is being used as a bunk bed. And why the autopilot can go over the limits? They didn't think about it, because the amount of time engineers can spend debugging issues and QA finding problems is limited. (someone in the comment wrote «Teslas often “shadow brake” when driving under overpasses or overhead signs because the radar system gets confused.») https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545202

africanboy 6y ago

> Which is silly. We can try to improve multiple things at once. Which is naif. There is a limited amount of time and resources that a company can spend on features , prioritizing big things is always the sensible choice. In the specific case of cars, they can't be patched after reaching the market and usually a recall is issued only after something serious has already happened. Thake the example linked below that made the front page: A Tesla car speeds on autopilot when both seats are reclined in sleep mode. Tesla overlooked safety to provide useless features. If they had put big things first, the car would completely stop if the driver seat is being used as a bunk bed. And why the autopilot can go over the limits? They didn't think about it, because the amount of time engineers can spend debugging issues and QA finding problems is limited. (someone in the comment wrote «Teslas often “shadow brake” when driving under overpasses or overhead signs because the radar system gets confused.») https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545202