If you had a robot…

[Umbran]

First thing with every new satnav system: Silence!

Looking (and poking) at a screen, when your eyes should be on the road and your hands on the wheel, is pretty much the poster child for having voice-operation rather than manual. You might have picked a worse example to advocate for manual and text, but you'd have had to work at it...

 

[niklinna]

...I'd robot in the morning.
I'd robot in the evening, all over this land.
I'd robot out danger! I'd robot out a warning!
I'd robot out love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

 

[Yora]

Looking (and poking) at a screen, when your eyes should be on the road and your hands on the wheel, is pretty much the poster child for having voice-operation rather than manual. You might have picked a worse example to advocate for manual and text, but you'd have had to work at it...

Obviously, I silence it before I drive off. I also enter the destination before I drive off.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

First thing with every new satnav system: Silence!

Unless it can be modded with fake Leonard Nimoys voice. Then I bow before the words of the almighty machine.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Looking (and poking) at a screen, when your eyes should be on the road and your hands on the wheel, is pretty much the poster child for having voice-operation rather than manual. You might have picked a worse example to advocate for manual and text, but you'd have had to work at it...

I really hate touchscreens in cars. I tend to use the physical controls (if any) or simply do without if I’m in traffic for many of the functions they offer.

 

[MGibster]

It's just a piece of equipment. I wouldn't thank it or otherwise treat it any better than I would any other expensive piece of equipment.

 

[MarkB]

Obviously, I silence it before I drive off. I also enter the destination before I drive off.

So, if it's silent and you're not looking at the screen while you're driving, how is it helping you navigate?

 

[Yora]

Well, of course I look occasionally. The same I look at the speed and mirrors. What kind of discussion is this supposed to be?

 

[MoonSong]

Considering I tend to feel telemarketers aren't human, and not acting very polite as a result.... I think I'd be very mean to such machine....

 

[Mirtek]

If you had a robot —

— it’s a general purpose domestic humanoid robot capable of doing a wide variety of tasks for you
— it communicates verbally with you perfectly, but for the sake of this hypothetical it is not (and you know it is not) sentient and definitely has no feelings

Would you be polite to it as you would a person?

I say thank you to my Alexa for anything but ending timers and alarms with "Alexa stop". Any real question answered I respond with thank you by reflex