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Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by ncr100 »

josefresco wrote: post #6

Reminds my of when I tried to resurrect and old DJI drone with an out of date iPad mini for a controller. I turn on drone, launch the app and try several times to take off and fail. Try one last time assuming failure and it starts to take off! But then... Just as the drone starts to drift towards me, several notifications pop up within the app/iOS preventing control and sending me into a panic. Drone hits the house s…

That's an awesome and horrifying story.

I used to work with a software engineer who said to me he would never trust medical equipment that was computerized. It's hard to escape it these days but 20 years ago he was well aware of how many bugs even the most experienced software engineer would leave behind, and was rightly concerned that like if he needed medical support from a machine, that it could very well kill him.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

dizhn wrote: post #88
boatsie wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

The accept button is a one time deal. You click it and never hear about it again. Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. They want you either to get fed up and accept it or accidentally accept it.

Maybe the cookie tracking whether or not you responded isn’t saved if you reject cookies?

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by DamnInteresting »

My 2017 Chevy Bolt EV does something like this. Any time the infotainment system restarts, and at some seemingly random times, it displays a dialog with a whole paragraph of text about how the driver needs to keep their eyes on the road, and not on the screen[1]. Sometimes these reboots occur while driving, so it sometimes displays this long distracting message about avoiding distractions while one is in active traffic. Bananas.

[1] https://i.redd.it/tslqa8b29lua1.jpg

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by gerdesj »

guntherhermann wrote: post #26
gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Yeah, this'll be the UK. We use a mix of imperial and metric, so you'll see "300m to next service station" and also "30 mph" speed limits :). People typically weigh themselves in stone and lbs, yet the food we buy is weighed in grams

I often convert these new fangled units back into old money. Chains per fluid ounce (Ch/FlOz) is so much easier to comprehend.

I jest but that isn't as mad as our pre-decimalization currency. We were still spending coins that called themselves a shilling and calling them five pence (and 2s as 10p) for quite a few years afterwards.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by pcl »

boatsie wrote: post #78
samtho wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of legislating pop over messages to happen (looking at cookie messages), we just need to legislate these trash interruptions away. I didn’t begin using the device I purchased to be interrupted by something that had literally no bearing on my life, I cannot effectively use the device if I decline, and the existence of such can cause harm if I am working with something sensitive.

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

Consent-o-matic has really improved things for me. I get a little thrill every time I see it doing its thing.

https://consentomatic.au.dk

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by mrtksn »

pradn wrote: post #99
mrtksn wrote: post #83

This is an obvious no-no but these popups create other issues too. My Grandma lives in a small town in Eastern Europe and I bought her a Samsung Tablet to use with Skype so we can talk to her without paying ridiculous international rates(her house had 100mbps internet but no landline for phone, only GSM which was expensive to call). Anyway, at some point Skype and later Samsung decided that we can't call grandma with…

> I Give her my old iPhone 7 and use FaceTime now, with auto answer setting turned on in the accessibility. I didn't know this feature existed. Quite thoughtful!

Yep, Apple's accessibility stuff are awesome. I use another old iPhone the same way as a pet cam, but for some reason that one is not very reliable and doesn't always connect but that particular iPhone always had issues.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

raverbashing wrote: post #65
kyriakos wrote: post #47

I got this one twice already. Ironically if you choose yes, it will say "cannot view while driving" and then it goes away till the next time you start driving.

What a farce And what if you disagree with it?

My take from the screenshot and description is you’re just disagreeing to read it now, it doesn’t appear there’s any way to actually disagree with the terms of service update itself.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by bad_user »

dizhn wrote: post #88
boatsie wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

The accept button is a one time deal. You click it and never hear about it again. Deny on the other hand causes the same question to come up again and again. They want you either to get fed up and accept it or accidentally accept it.

I the dialog comes up repeatedly after deny, that's illegal in the EU actually.

Also, I don't know what the posters above are talking about, but more and more dialogs these days have a working Reject All button. Including that of Meta or Google. Bad actors are still left, but still.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by ralferoo »

jcdavis wrote: post #28
gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Definitely not. Having your fuel economy measured in MPG but having your fuel tank size & fillups measured in L is always a fun game.

I have my car set to display L/100km, but that's mostly because it's a hybrid and so kW/100km is more logical than the inverse and it makes sense to have them both operating the same way.

My previous car didn't have an economy reading anyway, so my only frame of reference before was calculating pence per mile rather than MPG. L/100km seems logical and I had got used to it in a matter of weeks. Mine is generally around 5-6L/100km on long, mostly petrol journeys, so this is now my new mental benchmark, and it's also trivial to go from this to pence per litre, and not much more to get to the pence per mile that I thought in before. I guess my brain has got good at multiplying by 1.6 as I use km for running and cycling too.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by araes »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #103

My 2017 Chevy Bolt EV does something like this. Any time the infotainment system restarts, and at some seemingly random times, it displays a dialog with a whole paragraph of text about how the driver needs to keep their eyes on the road, and not on the screen[1]. Sometimes these reboots occur while driving, so it sometimes displays this long distracting message about avoiding distractions while one is in active traff…

There are some of these, where you really wonder how somebody inside a major company like Chevy could actually arrive at this. Multiple people have to code, check, authorize, and push software like this. Apparently without complaint, like they don't drive cars themselves.

Unfortunately, this feels a bit like female clothing with "Don't Look Here!" emblazoned right across the front.

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