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There are at least several ways to continue your analogy though. 1) Cars cause accidents, and modern safety improvements like pedestrian alert, don't make up f
by jacobr1 5y ago
There are at least several ways to continue your analogy though.
1) Cars cause accidents, and modern safety improvements like pedestrian alert, don't make up for the responsibilities manufactures have for their death machines
2) "Features" in new cars, like increased touchscreen usage, contribute to accidents by causing distraction. Better braking or whatever doesn't overcome the responsibility to have better control interfaces.
3) New tactile controls, and popup displays for backup cameras, in some recent luxury cars are reversing the trend in distracting touch-screen interfaces, resulting in safer driving experiences
All three examples above are true to some extent.
- RandallBrown 5y agoSure but Ford isn't developing shitty touchscreens because they want to cause accidents so they can upsell you on a more expensive jogwheel. They're developing shitty touchscreens because they're an old car company with little expertise in software UX.
- jacobr1 5y agoNeither is microsoft. They aren't deliberately adding security bugs to their software. They just are doing a crap job of building secure software. You could argue they don't have the right incentives to fix that problem though.