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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by sandworm101 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:28AM (#36469237)
Quick solution: Pull over on the highway shoulder. Get rear-ended by a truck. Get injured. Sue the car company on the basis that their distracting in-car, while-driving, notice system contributed to the accident. Whether you win or lose, that will be the end of such popups.
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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by dgfitz on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:33AM (#36469283)
“Quick” and lawyers/court are antonyms.
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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by adhesive_wombat on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:47AM (#36469467)
Only if the cost of provably caused-by-touchscreen accidents that the company can't blame the user for ("users should only use the car systems in accordance with local laws") exceeds the savings they think they're making by doing everything in software plus the data and affiliations like Spotify integrations they think they can monetise.
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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by bigbillheck on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:31PM (#36470679)
At best you'd win some kind of mandatory labeling about when not to do it that people 20 years from now will mock as needless safety warnings for the stupid.
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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by doubled112 on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:25AM (#36478817)
I already mock us for needing endless safety warnings.

Don't stick your hands in a moving chainsaw blade, eh?

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Re:Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to tec... by bigbillheck on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:33PM (#36484628)
Yes this was the social phenomenon to which I was referring.
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