Study Finds Using Siri Is More Distracting Than Using A Phone

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Hold on just a minute, why blame Siri? Maybe iPhone owners are just bad drivers. :D

Voice controls are touted as the "safe" alternative to fumbling with our phones, and yes, they keep our eyes on the road and our hands on the wheel. But the technology is still half-baked, and in the case of Apple's Siri, it's distracting enough to cause two crashes in a simulator.
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That is because when you are mad and yelling at Siri how she is a dirty rotten whore for not "being able to do that right now" you MUST look at the phone.
 
I much prefer this siri as a distraction of any kind:

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over this siri:

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Thank you.
 
Maybe it's because you have to think more when talking to Siri? As in, you have to consciously formulate your sentence in order to make it understand you, rather than more natural speech with a human where you have a much higher understanding success rate just about regardless of how you say something?
 
ShinseiTom said:
Maybe it's because you have to think more when talking to Siri? As in, you have to consciously formulate your sentence in order to make it understand you, rather than more natural speech with a human where you have a much higher understanding success rate just about regardless of how you say something?
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Nailed it. This is why voice controls and touch sensitive controls will never be better than anything with real, not simulated, physical tactile feedback. Our brains require these responses from our nerve endings. If you've ever operated a machine that is "fly-by-wire" you know exactly what I mean.
 
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