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Bosch thinks a "fascinating" user interface will develop more enthusiasm for electric vehicles. Exploratory ideas include:
...the hunch mode (hunches about things that might interest Birgit as she drives), the energy flow display, the next mile guide, and remote monitoring and control.
The ideas in Birgit's electric car are the work of the Bosch user experience team. In four project phases – and using a new approach to development – the team members gain a number of insights into the possible design of a future human-machine interface (HMI) for electric vehicles. These insights are then applied to a prototype, and members of the public are asked what they think of the concepts that have been developed.
One wonders if the engineers at Bosch are even considering that "fascinating" probably means "more complicated" and therefore more things can go wrong.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SlimmPickens on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:43AM
Yes, exactly what we need is a car that draws people's attention from the fucking road to hunch mode and the energy flow display.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @01:31AM
Yes, exactly what we need is a car that draws people's attention from the fucking road to hunch mode and the energy flow display.
Bosch invented anti-lock brakes, [bosch.com] the first complete electrical headlight system and later projector headlights. Plus a whole ton of other auto safety stuff. They are certainly aware of the safety implications of something like this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @02:55AM
Bosch wants you to think they invented anti-lock brakes,
FTFY
There were other systems earlier that didn't make it into big production.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @04:35AM
Read the link, they had a patent on an early design for ABS in 1936.
Who had anything, pre-production or otherwise, before that?
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Wednesday April 08 2015, @02:12AM
This, exactly.
I had a Toyota Prius for a couple of years and the simple more-leafs = better-gas-milage display I loved too much and had to turn off the display entirely just so I would start paying attention to the road again. Did my gas mileage suffer? Yes, but only slightly. Did I get into a crash because I wasn't paying attention to the road? No. Did I crash the car anyway? Yes (it turns out the car had shit traction control when it comes to slushy snow mixture. 10 mph slow-motion slide off the freeway on-ramp almost totaled the car, so now I drive an AWD Audi A4 that does even worse in the snow, but is, at the very least, predictable in what it does.), but that's beside the point.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @02:57AM
Dude, if you can't handle snow maybe you need to buy some decent *snow* tires. All season tires are for people that wait for the salt to melt super slippery road conditions.