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Re:Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than po... by mumblemumble on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:52AM (#22647362)
I suspect it'll have to get solved the same way as seat belts did, too. For the same reason: Cost. A low-distraction interface is going to be more expensive to develop and manufacture than a touchscreen that can be largely assembled from commodity parts and some software.
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Re:Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than po... by Cyberdog on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:02PM (#22649513)
> A low-distraction interface is going to be more expensive to develop and manufacture than a touchscreen that can be largely assembled from commodity parts and some software.

That seems bizarrely counter-intuitive as a more-or-less standardized low-distraction interface already exists for car radios.

Okay, sure, you add the touch screen so you can do GPS and stuff, but is it really that hard to wire up a pre-existing car radio knob and buttons to an Android device along with some software to map twisting the knob to adjusting the audio volume and so on?

It just baffles me how little apparent attention was given to this sort of thing. I wonder if these people are dogfooding.

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Re:Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than po... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:15PM (#22647546)
The way I read the history section here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt makes it sound like seatbelts are mandated.

In what way is it cheaper to install seatbelts than not?

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Re:Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than po... by mortenjorck on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:51PM (#22647839)
I think what the GP is saying is that because seatbelts were an added expense, the only way they were ever widely adopted was through legislation, and that distraction-minimizing infotainment systems will have to follow a similar path.
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Re:Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than po... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:46PM (#22649367)
Right, sorry, yes, I see that now.
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