Attention Operator: Interaction Temporarily Paused
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 7 months ago to Technology
Excerpt:
"The 2023 VW ID.4 I’m test driving this week – more about that here – isn’t just an electric car.
It is a parenting car.
It will “temporarily pause” your ability to change the radio station – which you do by using the tap/swipe cell phone interface built into the dashboard – if it thinks you have taken your eyes off the road. Which you have to do, because you cannot tell by feel what you’re doing when using a tap/swipe cell phone interface – i.e., the LCD touchscreen built into the dashboard.
Franz Kafka, phone home!
Almost all new and recent-model cars have these things, chiefly because they are cheap (to install) yet look fancy.
...
Now – in many cars – almost everything is controlled via the tap/swipe interface built into the dash, obliging you to tap and swipe. But that is distracting – just like the smartphone they say you’re not supposed to tap/swipe while driving. And so they built into the car a monitoring system that “temporarily pauses” your ability to exercise any control over the smartphone screen they built into the car – preventing you from changing the radio station, for instance – if the car thinks you are “distracted.”
It can see that – via eye-movement monitors that you can’t see unless you use a video camera. If you want to see these sensors, pan the dash area with a camera; then you’ll then see these strange metronomically blinking red lights. Those are the sensors. If they see you are looking at what you’re not supposed to – according to the car’s programming – then the car will “temporarily pause” whatever it was you were trying to do.
Like change the channel.
But not just that."
"The 2023 VW ID.4 I’m test driving this week – more about that here – isn’t just an electric car.
It is a parenting car.
It will “temporarily pause” your ability to change the radio station – which you do by using the tap/swipe cell phone interface built into the dashboard – if it thinks you have taken your eyes off the road. Which you have to do, because you cannot tell by feel what you’re doing when using a tap/swipe cell phone interface – i.e., the LCD touchscreen built into the dashboard.
Franz Kafka, phone home!
Almost all new and recent-model cars have these things, chiefly because they are cheap (to install) yet look fancy.
...
Now – in many cars – almost everything is controlled via the tap/swipe interface built into the dash, obliging you to tap and swipe. But that is distracting – just like the smartphone they say you’re not supposed to tap/swipe while driving. And so they built into the car a monitoring system that “temporarily pauses” your ability to exercise any control over the smartphone screen they built into the car – preventing you from changing the radio station, for instance – if the car thinks you are “distracted.”
It can see that – via eye-movement monitors that you can’t see unless you use a video camera. If you want to see these sensors, pan the dash area with a camera; then you’ll then see these strange metronomically blinking red lights. Those are the sensors. If they see you are looking at what you’re not supposed to – according to the car’s programming – then the car will “temporarily pause” whatever it was you were trying to do.
Like change the channel.
But not just that."
This isn't headed in a good direction. It's cattle to the slaughter.
Use it or lose it. Your brain. Think about that. The war that was won without a shot. The humans submitted to the machines without a whimper.