What I don't understand about these 'safety' features.

[5teep]

I'm sure you've all had it, driving along and the car bongs at you, a warning message flashes up on the display for a second. So are you supposed to take your eyes off the road to look at the display (when there's a potential situation up front) to find out what the potential situation is?
Of course, in my case by the time I've focused on the display to read the note it's just disappearing off screen.

In my universe that's just not joined up thinking. Different sounds for different situations might be better, or an audio (as in voice) alert "watch out for the black cat crossing" Maybe leaving the note on screen for longer but even so by the time you read it you've run over the cat.

 

[T1 Terry]

I'm sure you've all had it, driving along and the car bongs at you, a warning message flashes up on the display for a second. So are you supposed to take your eyes off the road to look at the display (when there's a potential situation up front) to find out what the potential situation is?
Of course, in my case by the time I've focused on the display to read the note it's just disappearing off screen.

In my universe that's just not joined up thinking. Different sounds for different situations might be better, or an audio (as in voice) alert "watch out for the black cat crossing" Maybe leaving the note on screen for longer but even so by the time you read it you've run over the cat.

I go by the philosophy I use with the wife, if it was important, it will be repeated a lot louder and made obvious that I should have been paying attention and answered with some sort of reply the first time

T1 Terry

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I'm sure you've all had it, driving along and the car bongs at you, a warning message flashes up on the display for a second. So are you supposed to take your eyes off the road to look at the display (when there's a potential situation up front) to find out what the potential situation is?
Of course, in my case by the time I've focused on the display to read the note it's just disappearing off screen.

In my universe that's just not joined up thinking. Different sounds for different situations might be better, or an audio (as in voice) alert "watch out for the black cat crossing" Maybe leaving the note on screen for longer but even so by the time you read it you've run over the cat.

Many years ago we had a small contract job at BNFL . There was a two hour induction course before we were allowed into the main buildings to do our job . Part of the course was listening to all the different alarms ( about 15 ) which could go off and what differing procedures to follow on hearing them.
The next day we were working away in an isolated part of the building when what we thought was a (ring - ring ) telephone call sound over the tannoy , it didn't sound urgent so we ignored it and carried on working. Half a hour later a man was doing his rounds in a rubberised suit and breathing equipment and was shocked to find us there, he gestured and hustled us out into to car park where dotted around were 500 people in different evacuation zones. Apparently some sensor had detected a gas leak but had turned out to be an over sensitive sensor, so a false alarm .
Too many alarms can cause confusion as can the same alarm to cover a multitude of potential problems, the extended note on the screen is more useful and an extra page to access memorised alerts and times when they occurred.

 

[5teep]

Many years ago we had a small contract job at BNFL . There was a two hour induction course before we were allowed into the main buildings to do our job . Part of the course was listening to all the different alarms ( about 15 ) which could go off and what differing procedures to follow on hearing them.
The next day we were working away in an isolated part of the building when what we thought was a (ring - ring ) telephone call sound over the tannoy , it didn't sound urgent so we ignored it and carried on working. Half a hour later a man was doing his rounds in a rubberised suit and breathing equipment and was shocked to find us there, he gestured and hustled us out into to car park where dotted around were 500 people in different evacuation zones. Apparently some sensor had detected a gas leak but had turned out to be an over sensitive sensor, so a false alarm .
Too many alarms can cause confusion as can the same alarm to cover a multitude of potential problems, the extended note on the screen is more useful and an extra page to access memorised alerts and times when they occurred.

Also why a voice alarm although even that would have to be pretty generalised. "Object ahead/to the right/left)..."

 

[T1 Terry]

After working in a lot of heavy industry sites on shutdowns, every place seemed to have a different alarm for the same basic situation that it became confusing, so if an alarm went off, we'd just look for people running in a mass panic to determine if it was serious or not ..... I eventually ended up on a rather specialised gang and we had our own safety person with us, armed with gas detectors, a direct fire reference link so they knew which way to run, and oxygen level equipment and heat/humidity monitors to determine if we needed to get somewhere cooler and fill up on electrolytes ......
Looking back on it now, we did work in some dangerous areas .... but the money was brilliant

T1 Terry