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This is a great example of when "perfect is the enemy of good".

Humans have pretty good spatial reasoning (proprioception); the notion that touch controls should replace tactile well-spaced controls is dependent on the fact that both senses (sight, spatial awareness) are uncontested.

I would argue the point that sight is already in-use and must not be interfered with, if there's an alternative that does not use the same resources.

I think of it like hardware acceleration and parrelelisation; the brain has a hardware accelerator for sight, but only one, and has a bunch of cores ready for other tasks, and those other tasks can happen in parallel.



Or you could go for Tesla's strategy, which is try to get self-driving ASAP so you don't have the problem anymore.




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