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Enhance your car dashboard with a “time to (maybe) crash” / imminent collision indicator. Safety first!

Jan 30, 2023

Automotive / Cars, Design, UI / UX

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Background: Cars have a lot of instruments. These typically indicate the car’s speed, the current gear, and various other qualities of debatable utility. Nowadays, cars have all sorts of additional sensors (potentially including LIDAR, cameras, GPS, etc…), but the dashboard instrument panel has not changed substantially since about 1950. Proposal: Let’s add a new indicator…
Supplemental post: A car manufacturer is actually applying an “achievement unlocked” system to encourage car maintenance. You might or might not believe what happens next, depending on a combination of your personality traits!

Apr 10, 2015

Automotive / Cars, Design, UI / UX

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As previously discussed on this very site, “gamification” is a hot topic in the world of behavioral influence. The car manufacturer Qoros (观致汽车) (Wikipedia link) is attempting to use this technique in the automotive world. The picture below (from the electronic dashboard of a 2015 Qoros sedan) displays the “Beat the Line” achievement. Unfortunately, a full…