97 Year Old in a Tesla
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To turn on the seat warmers you "just" click the top level button, mid level button, identify the seat you want to heat, and observe it turning red as you click it. How do you teach that to a 97 year old? Isn't a tactile static picture next to your seat of a seat on fire much easier to teach?
There are a lot of tactile reasons that "stalks" work for lights and wipers, or that buttons press versus rotate. Or that things that do rotate click into place.
Interestingly, I have 2 grandmothers at this age, both at extremely different levels of cognitive and physical ability.1 has an ipad and plays bridge on it, while the other hasn't been able to use a computer for a decade.
- Identify if there's a dialog box showing.
- If there is, dismiss it (sometimes tap outside it, sometimes click close, sometimes accept the prompt.
- Then click the top level button, etc...
Once full self-driving is supported maybe it'll be less of an issue, but as long as I've got full control of the car, that represents at least 10 seconds of looking at the screen (hopefully broken up into chunks with glances at what's happening on the road).