Not knowing where you're going is only a problem if you panic. I know people do panic, but those people aren't good drivers and have plenty of other problems leading to their accidents.
Also, if you're being consistently tailgated and sped past, it's possible you're driving much slower than traffic, which is dangerous to others even if it doesn't get you into an accident.
Well, consider the typical driver anymore... of course they panic (if they are even paying enough attention for cause to panic in the first place).
What scares me more, though, are people who blindly turn left across traffic when they can't see. I had a few near misses like that where we used to live, and unfortunately after a couple of deaths (at said intersections) the city upgraded the lights with arrows, as apparently, people couldn't turn off stupid-mode.
I suppose we're in some sort of odd race to see if AI can improve enough to drive as good as a 1st day new driver wearing a blindfold, or if society degrades to the point where even that AI is better than the typical driver.
And, while I might have agreed with your second sentence in my younger days, I think common-sense has so left the building, that they might be driving plenty fast enough, but traffic is now thick with people lacking such common sense (to put it politely).
After all these years, Apple’s navigation is still absolute trash. I drive all over Southern California for my job, and even major highways that have been altered for 4 years are still missing from Apple maps. Additionally, Apple maps loves giving me the longest route to a destination first for some odd reason.
I was pretty familiar with driving the city where I started using Apple Maps, and the navigation always took me on some pretty weird routes, often with somewhat unsafe turns, or in ways that actually weren't the most efficient (possibly shorter, but inefficient).
Now that I'm living in a new city, I'm wondering how bad the directions would be to locals, now that I somewhat depend on it.
I’m guessing major cities like LA and Hollywood are well covered by Apple Maps though, as it is a major population center.
Yeah, I think with Apple Maps, it's far more location dependent than Google. Google has just done a ton more mapping. Notice that when Apple demos anything, they always use the Bay Area. I'm guessing the people who have really good luck with it, live in such places.
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That would not be a surprise, as car manufacturers have always been clueless about simple user interfaces. They seem to be from another planet.
Possibly, as in VCR menus? But, remember, a good UI in a car isn't the same as a good UI on a phone, tablet, etc. A good UI in a car is something you don't have to look at or only glance at super-briefly.
The whole idea of mounting a touch-screen display in the center of the dash to do anything while driving is the opposite of a good user interface!
Maps or Google maps, never enter your home address. Use a nearby landmark. Also so in the car GPS.
