<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Peter Corlett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abuse@cabal.org.uk">abuse@cabal.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:01, JLMS wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> The brain does not work in a linear way, it is unpredictable and easily<br>
> fooled. I have explained myself abundantly in other messages.<br>
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</div>You have?<br>
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All you seem to have done is claim that technology can solve the problem of incompetent people driving recklessly. However, it obviously can't, otherwise it'd already be fitted in all cars by New Labour diktat.<br>
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We already have a much simpler solution: we find these dangerous nutters, hopefully before they kill somebody, and take their driving licence away until they have learned how to safely operate a car. Much more effective than something out of a science-fiction book.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, I have.<br><br>I was not talking about incompetent people (that is the typical knee jerk reaction of most technologically inclined people: assume users, that otherwise are perfectly able to do anything else, all of the sudden become stupid in an unfamiliar situation).<br>
<br>I have seen people with decades of experience driving in the wrong side of the road when arriving to a new place where the cars drive the other way around.<br><br>I am looking at this from the point of view of people that travel infrequently and all of the sudden find an unfamiliar environment, not about local people that are driving day in, day out the same vehicle (but even in this situation, familiarity and routine create dangerous situations).<br>
<br>Even when it comes to "nutters", is it beyond the dignity of designers to come up with solutions that stop them harming others? By the time you deduct those license points it may be too late (tellingly you use the word "hopefully", which to me it says more could be done).<br>
<br>Sorry to go so far off topic, I have some background about user interface design and one learns the hard way that it is rarely the user's fault when something goes wrong with a system (computing or any other kind), as some others have pointed out the solutions for the "driving system" are out there already, the challenge is political not technical.<br>
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