Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens

Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by phpisthebest on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:52PM (#34290602)

>>I can't imagine how a rational and empathetic

Empathy and rationality are often in conflict, you seem to side more on the empathetic side where I do not. I am purely on the logical / rational side and freely admit to having very low Empathy.

>>someone to who can't be reasoned out of their opinions simply because they didn't reason themselves

I literally linked to a site called Reason.com.... It provides a very reasoned case for the abolishment of Drunk driving laws, and the unintended consequences to civil liberties those laws have created. (similar to the consequence to civil liberties the war on drugs has caused)

I think I have very reasoned and logical positions that are not based at all in empathy or emotion, which IMO is where all government regulation and law should be, devoid of emotion. Laws created because of emotional response are almost universally bad laws.

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by Animatronio on Saturday January 07, 2023 @02:08PM (#34291456)

For a site called reason the article surely is dumb AF. First the author argues back and forth about BAC levels. Maybe it should be .05? Or .08? Or something else? Well how about 0.00 as is in many other countries?? Then he somehow misses the fact that BAC levels can be deduced from blood samples taken hours after the actual police stop. No wonder they let him go in 2011.

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by watwut on Saturday January 07, 2023 @02:59PM (#34292011)

Logic and rationality are not inherently opposed to empathy.

That being said, one does not need to be empath to value not causing accidents to other people. "This will lead to more accidents" is both logical and rational claim.

The ideological investment into idea that one must be selfish to max to look "logical" is irrational.

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by phpisthebest on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:31PM (#34293065)

Now where do I, nor the link, advocate for ignoring accidents to other people. In fact the goal is to actually lessen them which I and others advocate is not the actual goal of people pursing some of these regulations. Control and power seems to be the control. In the case of DUI laws in the US it seems to be primary born out of the desire to get around 4th amendment search provisions not about safety

I fail to see how advocating for very harsh punishment for people that cause accidents to other people, including prison and revocation of driving license has been twisted here to be something that is illogical and disregarding to others.

I also fail to understand why a person should not have the responsibility upon buying a vehicle to understand how to operate it safely, no matter if the interface is a Button or Touch screen. Do we give a pass to someone if they were fumbling with buttons? It is insanity to me how much society has drifted away from personal responsibility to everything being everyone else's fault

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by watwut on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:09PM (#34294024)

I did not said that you advocated "ignoring accidents". You was against regulation against making it safer, with argument that punishing those who make mistakes or cause accidents harder is better option.

Then you created dichotomy between "empathy" and rationality, while responding to person accusing you of missing both.

Then you literally made strawman arguing I wrote something else then I wrote.

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