[TheTaytay]

There are so many times other than driving that voice is the preferred medium here. It feels like just one example. (And as others pointed out, taking a hands-free phone call during a drive is not at all provocative these days, to the point that it feels like an odd thing to fixate on personally.)

[swsieber]

Given that they dented their call while doing the demo, it doesn't seem weird to fixate on. I think the criticism is valid, given the framing presented and the pitch used to investors.

Also, audio interfaces incur different amounts of mental load / distraction. I wouldn't be surprised if this was more distracting than just talking to a person.

[vedhsaka]

I think the car dent story originally came from - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008239. As I clarified there - the dent happened before the April demo, during hackathon stress while taking out the car from parking.

But totally valid criticism about cognitive load - better example could be dog walking, cooking or screen free time.

[jvwww]

It should really be made clearer in your post that that the crash was not from speaking with April, as it's a bit unclear. Cool product, good luck!

[TheTaytay]

Oh gosh - good point. Sorry! (I watched the other demo video and didn't see this)