Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

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    4 days ago

    Until I lived here I wouldve assumed that last line about Ubers was an exaggeration but…yeah, a huge portion of the bay area strategic techbro reserve actually can’t legally drive. Then once they turn 28 and move to the burbs they lost a full decade of learning and they shift from not legally allowed to just “shouldn’t”.

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      Yeah I understand why people don’t get their licenses living in cities there’s really no reason. But ability and semi frequency of driving a car should be a prerequisite for being hired to design one.

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        Yep. Obvs there’s a lot more than goes into a car than just the UI but…I don’t trust user experience engineers. Some of them gave us the Mac os. Other gave us windows 11. Others gave us gnome. None of them should be allowed near the UI for a 2-ton metal brick on wheels. “But what if we compressed all of the icons in one to get a ‘clean’ design and then had a 2 second fly-out animation to show you what they all are”

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          Yeah they absolutely do not need to be making the decisions. Car designers should be designing cars not UI designers or software engineers.

          Designs have been relatively standardized for decades for safety. every other car out there I haven’t needed to talk to the owner to find out how to drive it, I just drove it. But teslas I’ve had to ask…

          That being said I once spent a solid 10 minutes inside an electric Porsche trying to figure out how to turn it on… the power button is to the left of the steering wheel in the strangest spot. Then there’s the newer cars with their weird toggles and what not but it doesn’t take too long to figure out how to shift.

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            Back before about 1920, there weren’t standard interfaces in cars. Pedal arrangements were arbitrary, there were levers to control things like spark advance, stuck wherever the manufacturer liked, and secondary controls were even more random than they are now. There’s no reason to go back to those days.

            Using a tablet to control a moving car is a dangerously stupid move that regulators should never have allowed. It’s even worse than the notoriously shit BMW Tiptronic modal controller of cursed memory.

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              3 days ago

              At least before 1920 there was only a hundred drivers on the road in the whole country!

              (Exaggeration but I hope you get the point haha)

              I fucking hate the tablets!