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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 21:18:23 JST Charlie Stross

   We need to go further and regulate to ban touchscreens in cars (except for non-driver entertainment consoles). Screens for status and navigation displays can stay for now (but more research on distraction potential is needed). But you should be able to control your vehicle by tactile feedback, without taking your eyes off the road.
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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 21:21:58 JST Peter Krefting

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     @cstross Yeah, those screens are dangerous and distracting, as has been proven over, and over again.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20220728101543/https://newsrnd.com/tech/2022-07-27-tesla-distracts-the-most---model-3-brings-up-the-rear-in-adac-test.BJ-gq2502q.html

     I have only driven one of those screen-only Teslas once, and it's not an experience I want to relive.

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     Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 15:36:39 JST Fish Id Wardrobe

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     @cstross you had me at "you should be able to control your vehicle". I drive a thing with a "lane detection" system that has tried to nudge me into the opposite carriageway a couple of times. I mean, it physically moves the wheel. I can turn it off -- but when you start the car it's always on.

     A colleague with a different car had his try to steer him into a ditch…