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I'm amazed Woz is complaining about being "robbed" and should have a better understanding of "beta", however, he gets one point absolutely right. What I think
by pedalpete 4y ago
I'm amazed Woz is complaining about being "robbed" and should have a better understanding of "beta", however, he gets one point absolutely right.
What I think nobody could have foreseen is how unnerving it feels to be in a self-driving car. I don't think this is the same as it not working. Even when it is working, you're still on edge.
We probably had this same feeling when cruise control was first invented, and then when it introduced the "distance follow" feature. Is it really going to slow down? Is it going to just follow the car ahead?
We're more comfortable today that those systems just work. And I don't know if they always worked flawlessly.
Tesla has done work in the UX to try to make people calmer by understanding what the car is doing, but it's clearly not working.
- ashwagary 4y ago>What I think nobody could have foreseen is how unnerving it feels to be in a self-driving car. What I think nobody could have foreseen is how unnerving it feels to be in Elon's experimental implementation of a self-driving car.
- interstice 4y agoI had the experience of trying an (older version) of Tesla self drive before my first experience with distance follow. The self drive was a hell of a lot more unnerving. I think the difference comes down to having lot more time to adjust the throttle or brake than you do the steering if the self driving feature misses a corner.
- pedalpete 4y agoThis is absolutely a fair argument with the current state of self-driving, however, if there were a better UX communicating what the car was doing, AND you were more used to it, AND it's 15 years down the road and self-driving is seen as more reliable, I wonder if you'd have the same feeling. Let's check back in 15 years.