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>“Drive Pilot enables the driver to turn away from the traffic and focus on certain secondary activities,” the luxury carmaker said in a statement. “For example
by blamazon 5y ago
>“Drive Pilot enables the driver to turn away from the traffic and focus on certain secondary activities,” the luxury carmaker said in a statement. “For example, to communicate with colleagues via the in-car office, to write emails, to surf the internet or to relax and watch a film.”
Does this phrasing seem unusual for others? It made me look to see if this was a satirical news site.
- bradfitz 5y agoMaybe it sounded reasonable in the original German.
- Aeolun 5y agoDidn’t sound weird to me. Just made me feel that they must be really confident in their system.
- aflag 5y agoBecause for you, everything that’s not driving is a secondary activity?
- Aeolun 5y agoI certainly hope that’s true for anyone that gets in a car. I’m not quite sure how it’s related though?
- aflag 5y agoBecause they are not really secondary activities for driving itself, it sounds like they are secondary in a broader context. A secondary activity for driving is, perhaps turning on the the wipers or something like that. But doing office work is a different activity, not a secondary one. That’s how it sounded like to me, at least.
- Aeolun 5y agoAh, I see where you are coming from. Yeah, I’d read ‘secondary activities’ more as in ‘not related to driving’, activities. When you start reading your email it’s probably a bit unreasonable to call that anything other than your primary activity.