IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek)

> If you go US<->UK, the whole UI is flipped left for right.  People manage to get around
reasonably well and not kill anybody.

A whole load of people from the UK get themselves and others killed on everyone else's roads
every year, though, from forgetting which side they're supposed to be driving on... the car's
UI is the least of the problems.

In any case, a car's UI is a lot simpler than a computer's UI - hell, most car stereos are
more complex than the cars they're in - and it also provides the kind of immediate physical
feedback that people are still missing on computers; when you turn, you can see and feel how
much you're turning in real time.