[hedora]

UI engineers need to be held legally responsible for false alarms like this.

My older car regularly hallucinates an incoming frontend collision and takes over the speedometer with a flashing red/black screen.

The new one (Kia) overrides the steering and forces the car to depart the lane (usually over double yellow lines).

If the alert regularly produces false positives then such behavior (and the behaviors of these EMRs) should open the vendor to civil and criminal liability. The courts should just assume the behavior will lead to loss of life, in the same way as discharging a firearm randomly in the city might.

It probably makes sense to have a short grace period to push a patch. Maybe one week after 0.1% of users complain?

[nradov]

If your vehicle has a safety defect then you should file a formal complaint with the NHTSA. These things won't get fixed unless customers follow the process.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem#/vehicle

[lazide]

Safety defect: my Tesla has a really distracting giant screen in the drivers field of view. WTF?

Closed: Working as Intended, Elon has us by the balls.

It’s similar to alarm fatigue in the ED. In most, every piece of equipment is alerting on at least one thing at any given moment, if just because the patients pulse-ox sensor is not attached super well.

But they came in because of a diabetic emergency and we’re just waiting to make sure the treatment worked and 99% of the time it does, so no one really cares, but the UX around silencing it isn’t great (and may be a liability if used). Like in this example.

Because maybe this is one of those 1/1000 cases where the insulin didn’t work, and they lost all peripheral circulation and that pulse-ox sensor’s bad reading is warning you that they are about to lose all their fingers.