weight of the
trunk. More weight means that a stronger latch spring will be needed
to use the remote release latch effectively.
* When looking at
the remote release, I see a picture of the trunk of the car. This
is a good example of visibility.
* When you pull
on the remote release lever, you hear the sound of the spring releasing
its tension, and the trunk popping. This is feedback.
* A good example
of natural mapping is that you have to pull the remote release lever
upwards, the same way the trunk will move.
* After pulling
the remote release lever a few times, and it does not work, taught helplessness
sets in. You never seem to trust the pull on the remote release,
and always get out of the car without
even attempting the remote release and going straight to the trunk with
your keys. (A learned response has set in from the
non-working remote release)
* Designers are not
users, and that is probably the reason that this design flaw has occurred.
If the engineer who designed the trunk latch had realized and
anticipated the market for bigger and heavier (better looking) spoilers, he/she would then have put a stronger latch spring inside the trunk latch mechanism.
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