[themitigating]

In 1930, laws were proposed in Massachusetts and St. Louis to ban radios while driving. According to automotive historian Michael Lamm, “Opponents of car radios argued that they distracted drivers and caused accidents, that tuning them took a driver’s attention away from the road, and that music could lull a driver to sleep.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29631/when-car-radio-was...

[imtringued]

It's true but the physical buttons on my car radio let me get things over with very quickly.

The more complicated and sophisticated you make the UI, the worse it is while driving. A touch screen invites excessive complexity the same way enterprise java invited excessive complexity.

[kristiandupont]

I am not sure what your point is here?

[bombolo]

It has caused accidents, yes.