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Fascinating this generation of phone swipers who cling to their wiper stalks and steering wheels. What’s “OK Boomer” for Millenials and Gen Z?
by hindsightbias 3y ago
Fascinating this generation of phone swipers who cling to their wiper stalks and steering wheels.
What’s “OK Boomer” for Millenials and Gen Z?
- rsynnott 3y agoI mean, this seems like a fairly classic example of Chesterton’s Fence. There is a _reason_ that car interfaces have been pretty similar for a very long time. By and large, they _work_. Occasionally someone tries a change, and it works, and is widely adopted. Usually, it does not work, and is abandoned either in testing, or after failure. Peugeot used to be a particularly prolific offender here. The lesson you should take from this is _not_ “right, we should introduce lots and lots of changes at once, and not bother with the testing” (I flatly don’t believe that the indicators-as-touch-buttons-on-steering-wheel thing was tested on actual humans before being implemented; if it had been it would never have seen the light of day).
- red-iron-pine 3y agoyou gonna rail against how pans, or shirts, or toilets have been the same for centuries too? there is a reason things stay the same, esp. when it comes to safety-related controls.