Post #1620406
2026-03-18 04:20 UTC
@ai6yr every time
This publication comes to mind:
https://how.complexsystems.fail
As does a Human Factors lecture I attended last century (ugh) on the amount of money spent on psychological research to make fighter plane cockpits human-goof-proof, ON TOP of the extended, intense, and repeated training pilots go through.
One of the points in the early 90's was cars were becoming too complex for mere untrained humans to cope with, with next to no thought about the human-tech interface required.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io 2026-03-18 04:43
@johannab @ai6yr Classic among classics. Also, there’s a 99pi about exactly this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 15:15
@johannab @ai6yr it’s also where standards help and “innovation” breaks muscle memory and consistency. Cars have always had quirks and differences but increasingly their user interfaces are becoming so different between makes sometimes in small until it causes a crash ways - I have two cars (a Volvo and a Kia) their interfaces do some things exactly opposite of each other (one you push up to control the windshields the other you push down) that’s minor More major - their safety systems differ