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Espressosaurus on Oct 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The best interface is no interface

I think the author of the article was conflating "interface" with "GUI".

Yeah, absolutely. Don't put a GUI as part of my car controls; that's stupid. But the wheel, pedals and shifter are certainly an interface.

icebraining on Oct 5, 2012 [–]

But you can eliminate that interface too, with sufficiently advanced driverless cars that know (from e.g. your habits or calendar) where you want to go.

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