[chatgptitaliano]

Artificial intelligence is especially important when integrated into virtual assistants in cars, such as ChatGPT.

Thanks to its natural language processing capabilities, AI can help drivers interact by voice, get directions, answer questions, or control some functions in the car without taking their hands off the steering wheel.

In addition, AI can also analyze situations, give early safety warnings, remind drivers when they are distracted, or suggest less risky routes.

This not only helps reduce traffic accidents but also brings a safer, more convenient, and smarter driving experience to everyone.

What do you think about my point of view?

[Rolebama]

A friend proudly bought his new car to show me. He had spent hours with his phone syncing it to the car. He instructed the car to phone his wife. The car happily announced it had now tuned the radio to BBC3. He told the car to tune the radio to Capital FM. The car advised us that there were no known problems on the M3. As an entertainment centre it worked very well.

[NMNeil]

How can something that distracts you claim to help you drive more safely by warning you you're being distracted? 🤔
It's a lot like being told how many collisions are cause by distracted drivers then putting up big advertising billboards designed to get a drivers attention focused on whatever they're advertising.

[Rolebama]

@NMNeil We have big yellow boards appearing all over the place giving us statistics for various incidents. Most of those I have seen are around 5 or 6 lines of print, and we are supposed to take them in with a glance. Same with road closure advance notice and the Police ones asking for witnesses. Yet advice on a local fete or whatever are spread over maybe 6 signs, each of 2 or 3 words, basically set up by members of the public, tell us all about the Church Fete at St Mary's on 23 Aug starting at 3pm all welcome.* On boards we can read in passing.
*Generic, but I think you get the drift.

[olduser]

Originally Posted by chatgptitaliano

Artificial intelligence is especially important when integrated into virtual assistants in cars, such as ChatGPT.

Thanks to its natural language processing capabilities, AI can help drivers interact by voice, get directions, answer questions, or control some functions in the car without taking their hands off the steering wheel.

In addition, AI can also analyze situations, give early safety warnings, remind drivers when they are distracted, or suggest less risky routes.

This not only helps reduce traffic accidents but also brings a safer, more convenient, and smarter driving experience to everyone.

What do you think about my point of view?

I have the opposite view, the more aids there are in a car the more dangerous it becomes, because the driver get's bored.

Look at this way, if I want the lights on, I switch them on but this is a reflex action so throughout the operation my brain is not distracted the light gets switched on using muscle memory brain not required.

But if I were to use voice control, brain must disengage from driving, assemble the command, and send it to be vocalised, brain listens to the vocalisation to check it is correct then looks to see if the instruction was followed, (are the lights on?) if not redo or if on return to driving.

The only justification I can dredge up to justify these extra toys is, they give extra bragging rights at the expense of safety.

[Rolebama]

An acquaintance bought a new Jaguar with automatic lights. His daily commute took him along Iver High St toward Langley. There is a sharp left turn where the road goes under a railway bridge. Just after the bridge there is a T junction with a road on the left to access an industrial estate. First day, he goes under the bridge, and someone pulls out in front of him from the industrial estate. This happened every day for a week. The weekend following he actually read the manual. We could only surmise that going under the bridge, (dark), caused the lights to come on. Then when he emerged from under the bridge, (light), the lights go off and it may appear to be flashing people out from the industrial estate. He accepted this explanation so for the next week he was more cautious there. In the meantime he was reading the manual trying to find out how to turn the auto lights off. At some point during that week, he arranged to take it back to the dealer's on the Saturday morning and they would sort it for him. On the Friday he wrote the car off by, according to him, swerving to avoid a fox on the road, and hitting a tree. When he got his insurance cheque, he bought a replacement, but not another Jaguar. I lost contact with him then so I don't know what he bought. He was a friend of a friend.

[NMNeil]

There is a real safety issue with automatic lights. My truck has them, they turn on the headlights when it gets dark or when the light level is low enough to need them.
Some time ago they did'nt turn on after dark and I had no idea how to do it manually because I'd never needed to.
Too much reliance on the machines thinking for you.

[olduser]

Originally Posted by Rolebama

An acquaintance bought a new Jaguar with automatic lights. His daily commute took him along Iver High St toward Langley. There is a sharp left turn where the road goes under a railway bridge. Just after the bridge there is a T junction with a road on the left to access an industrial estate. First day, he goes under the bridge, and someone pulls out in front of him from the industrial estate. This happened every day for a week. The weekend following he actually read the manual. We could only surmise that going under the bridge, (dark), caused the lights to come on. Then when he emerged from under the bridge, (light), the lights go off and it may appear to be flashing people out from the industrial estate. He accepted this explanation so for the next week he was more cautious there. In the meantime he was reading the manual trying to find out how to turn the auto lights off. At some point during that week, he arranged to take it back to the dealer's on the Saturday morning and they would sort it for him. On the Friday he wrote the car off by, according to him, swerving to avoid a fox on the road, and hitting a tree. When he got his insurance cheque, he bought a replacement, but not another Jaguar. I lost contact with him then so I don't know what he bought. He was a friend of a friend.

There is usually a longish delay before the lights turn off (well on a well designed system anyway) but that depends on when the observer noticed the lights were on.

In my energy meter chasing days, one year we had cars that had auto head lights and they were a real pain in the bum, under bridges, overhanging trees, parking between two high vehicles turned them on. A vehicle in front thinks you are giving them a hurry up, or the lights machine gun treatment, whilst the vehicle behind thinks there is need for an emergency stop. All our drivers were complaining about being chased down by enraged motorists. Eventually we found out how to turn the auto off. (I don't think it was in the early versions of the handbook.)

The same car's had auto wipers, that tended to turn on a bit early, and off much too late, we found a way to turn that off as well.

[Nick]

I actually quite like my automatic lights to be fair. They don't seem to engage too quickly and I can't say I've ever had any issue with them. Also they're easy enough to turn off and engage manual if I want. the one I always seem to accidentally knock off and forget how to turn back on is the automatic full beam. I only realise when Ik'm a quiet, dark, country and wonder why they're not on, and then I have to remember how to do it - (it's very easy and on the left hand indicator switch thing).

My auto wipers seem a little more maverick. They definitely do a job when needed but don't remember they're engaged when I start the car up - I have to turn them off and on again to get them in play.

[Rolebama]

I had auto wipers on my 406. They are something I really wish I had now. I do have adjustable intermittent, but, honestly, who can predict whether that bit of drizzle is going to stop or turn into a full blown downpour?