Using a phone while driving is being stupid, and there’s not really a good enough excuse to make it anything less and a new opportunity to exhibit that stupidity. Distractions are what get in the way of a good driver’s ability to drive well, like the insane amount of in-car brightness these days or the poorly adjust, ultra-bright headlights.
Soeaking of, I love that my 2015 BRZ has dimmable, red, seven-segment displays for everything and the new head unit I got for it can easily have its screen turned off. No distractions, just darkness and the road in front of me, even with my relatively “dim” headlights.
My car has capacitive buttons to turn on fog lights. That’s what I want, a button forcing me to look down when visibility is at its lowest. I’m sure there are hundreds of other examples of bad design causing driver distraction, but that one really pisses me off!
It’s honestly crazy how that happened. The only capacitive buttons I have are on the new headunit but I’ve muscle-memoried the power button and volume controls are mostly there but, like you say, they aren’t anything urgent so it’s chill. If I really wanted I could probably even buy a 2017+ steering wheel and get the buttons but I prefer the plain-jane one.
Replace one of the stupider with “more distractions”
The nearly 1:1 of iPhone launch in 2007 to rising accidents and non-vehicular injuries is undebatable.
People are also more stressed and depressed than ever.
Using a phone while driving is being stupid, and there’s not really a good enough excuse to make it anything less and a new opportunity to exhibit that stupidity. Distractions are what get in the way of a good driver’s ability to drive well, like the insane amount of in-car brightness these days or the poorly adjust, ultra-bright headlights.
Soeaking of, I love that my 2015 BRZ has dimmable, red, seven-segment displays for everything and the new head unit I got for it can easily have its screen turned off. No distractions, just darkness and the road in front of me, even with my relatively “dim” headlights.
My car has capacitive buttons to turn on fog lights. That’s what I want, a button forcing me to look down when visibility is at its lowest. I’m sure there are hundreds of other examples of bad design causing driver distraction, but that one really pisses me off!
It’s honestly crazy how that happened. The only capacitive buttons I have are on the new headunit but I’ve muscle-memoried the power button and volume controls are mostly there but, like you say, they aren’t anything urgent so it’s chill. If I really wanted I could probably even buy a 2017+ steering wheel and get the buttons but I prefer the plain-jane one.