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> Another feature in the patent—titled Panicky Occupant Detection—would monitor drivers' stress levels by observing their eye movement, body posture, body temperature, eye blink rate, heart rate and body gestures. The HUD would then adjust which display elements are shown on the windscreen.

Or people driven nuts by their spouses in the other seat?

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> The HUD would then adjust which display elements are shown on the windscreen.

Yeah, it wouldn't add to the already stressful situation if you suddenly couldn't find whatever you were looking for, not at all.

These dynamic adaptations to the GUI has always resulted in the worst UI ever. Consistency is paramount.

And people wonder why some of us just like editing text config files in vim...

Well vim is modal, so it's not exactly doing well in this regard!

I don't consider vim to be a culprit, you really can't update your key-bindings dynamically (in practice) to say more efficiently utlize the home row. It would be unusable and the UI would have no way to conway the new mappings.

Vim is still consistent, you have to mentally keep track of which mode you are in but that's second nature after you've groked it. Dynamic UI changes are not and always requires you to do one extra roundtrip and scan the UI for what options are currently available and adapt to it.

Knowledge that my car is monitoring my every twitch and heartbeat is more stressful than any traffic situation

That’s the POD-2, Pesky Occupant Detection. If it detects difficult friends, spouses, or in-laws a hefty dose of Versed is delivered to the passenger. Relief for the driver within minutes guaranteed!

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