UX #5: Why Google Maps’ urgency prepared us for AI-driven navigation
Why does Google Maps forces you to decide fast? Have you noticed how you only have a few seconds to select a faster route when the Google algorithm finds ways to optimize your travels?
That’s by design– the app wants to minimize the amount of attention you spend looking at a phone screen while driving.
As we gradually enter an era of AI-driven cars, researchers and designers are testing how AI and humans will hand-off controls to each other. How much time does a driver need during a handoff from AI? How much time does AI need to calibrate a handoff from a human driver? The reaction times of both AI and humans will be crucial to designing safe handoffs between drivers and AI in the future.Fun fact– my dad is a pilot and when 2 pilots control a plane, they handoff controls by saying it’s “your controls” or “my controls”. Would something like that work for human drivers and AI?
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