In undergrad I took a course called Human-Computer Interaction & the old school Apple UI guidelines was one of our texts. One interesting lesson involved looking at how Apple did & didn't follow their own recommendations - in particular, their media player at the time, broke many maxims in order to present a UI that looked like a physical home / car audio system interface. Even the resident mac addict agreed it was poor UI.
Last time I saw this, it was part of GM's Autonomy program which had the additional goal of separating the car's chassis for it's base aka the skateboard.
Autonomy used a drive-by-wire wheel, but did away w/ the foot controls. I vaguely recall having seen evidence that this move improved driver reaction time; something about one mode of reaction (hand controls only) out performing two modes of reaction (foot & hand), but I can't dig up the details.
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In undergrad I took a course called Human-Computer Interaction & the old school Apple UI guidelines was one of our texts. One interesting lesson involved looking at how Apple did & didn't follow their own recommendations - in particular, their media player at the time, broke many maxims in order to present a UI that looked like a physical home / car audio system interface. Even the resident mac addict agreed it was poor UI.
a walk through on how it was done can be read here: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/Rub... or here: https://medium.com/@rubiimeow/...
Perhaps this demonstrates consumer interest in offering signal free cars? Add a physical 'in case of emergency' phone for 911 calls if need be.
Last time I saw this, it was part of GM's Autonomy program which had the additional goal of separating the car's chassis for it's base aka the skateboard. Autonomy used a drive-by-wire wheel, but did away w/ the foot controls. I vaguely recall having seen evidence that this move improved driver reaction time; something about one mode of reaction (hand controls only) out performing two modes of reaction (foot & hand), but I can't dig up the details.
thus additional pros:
ability to radically redefine chassis
improved safety (provided I'm recalling correctly)