Driver says she was looking at an Uber touchscreen, not a smartphone, before crash.
So we can introduce legislation to ban touchscreen consoles in cars now, right? It's just as bad as a phone, but one's legal and the other isn't.
I don't like touch screens either, but how is this relevant. She was working with the self driving software. If it were buttons and dials, she still would have been distracted
Not to mention the cell phone ban isn't exactly effective. Its just gone from making people hold their phone above the wheel to below it and looking down.
Why go that far when you can do something like shut off most of its features while the car is driving? I'd be surprised if they didn't do that already, tbh.
Unlike with phones, legislators actually have quite a lot of control over how the touchscreens in cars can work since people don't tend to replace them or bring their own.
Because that's just regressive. Buttons and nobs work perfectly fine and can be used while driving without you taking your eyes off the road to stare at a screen. What you're suggesting is that to chance the radio or turn on the AC is that drivers will have to pull over to the side of the road to use basic features of their vehicle. Let's just go back to nobs...
Perhaps but its not really relevant to this case here. This is a separate argument
Didn't Uber have to recently scrap all of its research on self driving cars and start again from scratch because they stole a lot of data from google?
Uber's self-driving tech is garbage, they should have their license to deploy autonomous vehicles revoked everywhere it's been issued.
Buttons are at the very least tactile, screens are not
Why not keep the touchscreen, and put those on the steering wheel?
Voice activation would be a good solution
My car has it except... it literally only changes sync settings and that's it. it's worthless as fuck.
Well, that's where the airbag goes.
There are plenty of cars that offer a lot of steering wheel controls
They go on the sides of the wheel.
Even if it did alert the operator, how do they expect to alert them, have the driver react, then have the driver hit the breaks all within 1.3 seconds?
I guess the idea is for the driver to see and react to the situation like they would if they were actually driving, but clearly that isn't reliable.
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