Human Kind and Technology » safety

Multitouch UI for cars

ET — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:03:55 +0000

At a first glance this human-machine interface for our car looks really nice. But one has to remember all the different options (number of fingers to use, how to pinch and so on) at any time. For me, this seems to be complex, distracting the driver and therefore less safety in different situations.

via iatelevision.blogspot.de, see also matthauskrenn.com

How technology can improve car driving

ET — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:05:42 +0000

contents:

traffic light assistent
parking area assistant
refueling assistent
red light violation

But for the last item: What if one or more cars are already standing at the traffic light? ;)

Robust (smartphone) displays

ET — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:46:31 +0000

Providing such robust displays combined with tough unibodies (like the MacBook Pro or HTC Legend) surely is a way to reduce the need of cautiousness of the user, and therefore a sort of consistent stress, and to enhance the satisfaction. Nice devices and applications can arise from these things.

Increasing motorcyclists safety

ET — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:28:12 +0000

If this is in reality like in the following video this is in my opinion a great practical invention for motorcyclists (the interesting part starts at about 2:45):