"Dude, you hit the minivan"
Dec. 5th, 2006 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexOK, all of you who want to know what I do for a living? I try to stop people from making systems like this:
http://www.fquick.com/videos/viewvideo.php?id=520&file=520&autoStart=true
(Background: the 2007 Lexus comes with a "self-parking" "feature". The commercials show it parking itself between stacks of champagne flutes. This video shows what I would call a "user test" - which is to say actual real people using the system. It's quite clear to me that Lexus had nobody with my skill set involved in this vehicle's feature development.)
http://www.fquick.com/videos/viewvideo.php?id=520&file=520&autoStart=true
(Background: the 2007 Lexus comes with a "self-parking" "feature". The commercials show it parking itself between stacks of champagne flutes. This video shows what I would call a "user test" - which is to say actual real people using the system. It's quite clear to me that Lexus had nobody with my skill set involved in this vehicle's feature development.)
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:45 pm (UTC)The luxury car manufacturers seem to be competing to build the stupidest electronic "aid" for their cars. Google "BMW iDrive" if you want to see another example of teh stupid.