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Aligns perfectly with my experience. As soon as my wife's car started alerting her to cars around her, she quit looking. Instead, when an alert sounds, she jerk
by JoeAltmaier 6y ago
Aligns perfectly with my experience. As soon as my wife's car started alerting her to cars around her, she quit looking. Instead, when an alert sounds, she jerks the wheel at the sound and swerves involuntarily to avoid the imaginary conflict.
Its harrowing to be a passenger. I drive myself everywhere now.
- jschwartzi 6y agoMy wife's car just has "Parking Assistant" which beeps if you're within 2 feet of an obstacle in any quadrant of the vehicle. Basically it scares the shit out of us when we're trying to park. So I can understand the harrowingness of that system. I think a better design than an audible alarm is to show the driver using quadrants or a diagram when an object is within the "close," "very close," or "near-collision" zone around a vehicle and beep once but only when the object passes into another zone to alert the driver to a change in state. The tones should change for each transition so you can learn the tone for "object moved from close to very close in right driver's-side zone" and distinguish that from "object moved from very close to close in right driver's-side zone." Having to constantly pay attention to an alarm tone is extremely nerve-wracking. In medical devices this will often result in "alarm fatigue" where you spend so much time dealing with false alarms that you miss a real alarm.