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If you want to use an app, you should pull over to the side of the road.

ghaff 4y ago
Pulling over is often not very practical or especially safe itself. One of my frustrations that voice assistants in cars are still not often that great.
godelski 4y ago
You're probably right, but who's going to actually do that? Especially for a 5 second task. Plus, are we going to do that when there is a passenger who can control the phone without endangering anyone? The notion of pulling over is sane from a logical point of view but absurd from a human point of view. You can be right and wrong at the same time, this is one of those times. We have to consider how humans will actually act, not what they should do. Make the right decisions easy to do and make the wrong decisions as safe as possible.
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  > You're probably right, but who's going to actually do that? I do, every single time. I place my phone screen-side down in the space in front of my gear shift, under the dash, and I don't even touch it if the car isn't in park. I never look at the screen for GPS or anything when I'm driving. I rely on memorizing the route before I drive, and TTS announcements for upcoming turns. If the phone notifies me of an incoming call or text, I pull over before checking it. I don't think this is unreasonable. If you've been driving for 20 years or so already, then surely you know what it's like to drive like this. What it's like to drive without interacting with a screen, without GPS at all in fact. We had these things called road atlases, big books containing maps for every road in the state, and using one while actively driving was tantamount to suicide. Somehow we all still got where we wanted to go.
  - godelski 4y ago
    > I do But are you an outlier or a median sample? That's the point I'm trying to make here. I'm not even trying to suggest that people shouldn't follow your example (they should). But I'm trying to be realistic in recognizing that the majority of people do not do this and likely are not going to.

Pulling over is often not very practical or especially safe itself. One of my frustrations that voice assistants in cars are still not often that great.

godelski 4y ago

You're probably right, but who's going to actually do that? Especially for a 5 second task. Plus, are we going to do that when there is a passenger who can control the phone without endangering anyone? The notion of pulling over is sane from a logical point of view but absurd from a human point of view. You can be right and wrong at the same time, this is one of those times. We have to consider how humans will actually act, not what they should do. Make the right decisions easy to do and make the wrong decisions as safe as possible.

LarryMullins 4y ago
> You're probably right, but who's going to actually do that? I do, every single time. I place my phone screen-side down in the space in front of my gear shift, under the dash, and I don't even touch it if the car isn't in park. I never look at the screen for GPS or anything when I'm driving. I rely on memorizing the route before I drive, and TTS announcements for upcoming turns. If the phone notifies me of an incoming call or text, I pull over before checking it. I don't think this is unreasonable. If you've been driving for 20 years or so already, then surely you know what it's like to drive like this. What it's like to drive without interacting with a screen, without GPS at all in fact. We had these things called road atlases, big books containing maps for every road in the state, and using one while actively driving was tantamount to suicide. Somehow we all still got where we wanted to go.
- godelski 4y ago
  > I do But are you an outlier or a median sample? That's the point I'm trying to make here. I'm not even trying to suggest that people shouldn't follow your example (they should). But I'm trying to be realistic in recognizing that the majority of people do not do this and likely are not going to.