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The article talks about this: "Now, I think the vast majority of drivers will understand what’s going on and treat them as normal blinking turn indicators, but
by chriswait 5y ago
The article talks about this: "Now, I think the vast majority of drivers will understand what’s going on and treat them as normal blinking turn indicators, but these indicators hurt your brain, at least a little bit"
I think you are interpreting "confused" as "I can't tell which way the car is turning", while everyone else is talking about "This UX forces me to use my brain when I shouldn't have to".
- chrisseaton 5y agoI guess I don't know what the author thinks they mean about 'hurt your brain'.
- fortyseven 5y agoSure, go ahead and play stupid.
- chrisseaton 5y agoTo be honest I think the author is playing stupid pretending to be confused by a simple indicator light.
- lost-found 5y agoThey specifically address this in the article. You’re being willfully obtuse.
- andrewflnr 5y agoI think the author is more accurately simulating how his brain will feel when he's flying down the road, tracking the trajectories of the very fast metal boxes surrounding him, and suddenly encounters a non-standard ambiguous signal. Turn signal decoding should be instant and unconscious, and this mini signal disrupts that. If anything I think he's understating the risks.
- torstenvl 5y agoDishonesty is unbecoming.
- mthoms 5y agoSafety features should not be fun or cheeky. They should be intuitive and obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
- chriswait 5y agoYeah, I don't think they're literally meaning "hurt" here. Maybe a better analogy is where you're having a conversation with someone, and they throw in a double-negative. It's not like you're literally unable to work it out, but you need to engage with it consciously for a second. In a high-stakes conversation, that's just something that's good to avoid. A memorable example of this for me (if a bit of a tangent) was when Felix Baumgartner was doing his mega parachute jump, and they kept screwing up the comms for which direction the wind was coming from / going in: https://youtu.be/rNhmYaWiPEk?t=4200 https://youtu.be/rNhmYaWiPEk?t=4200 (by convention, people talk about wind in terms of the direction they come from). I think the whole thing here is that driving involves a lot of modelling other drivers and their intentions, so our tolerance for bad UX that requires conscious thought should be really low.
- icedchai 5y agoThe phrase is very common in the US. You've never heard someone say "this code hurts my brain" ?
- edoceo 5y agoCognitive Dissonance.