Product design question

What feature would you add to a Tesla car to make sure that the driver can take turns with ease and without missing blind spots?

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What this question tests

Product design for a safety-critical automotive feature, checking whether you prioritize driver safety and trust over flashy technology additions.

Define the user: any driver making turns, with particular attention to those with limited peripheral vision or larger blind spots from vehicle design.
Identify the core pain point: mirrors and cameras alone still leave gaps, especially for motorcycles or pedestrians in fast-closing blind spots during turns.
Prioritize a fail-safe, low-distraction alert over an information-dense display, since safety features must not add cognitive load during an already demanding maneuver.
Propose a feature: a blind-spot camera feed automatically displayed on the dashboard the moment a turn signal activates, paired with a subtle haptic steering wheel alert if an object is detected in the blind spot.
Address false positives carefully: tune detection sensitivity to avoid alert fatigue, since drivers ignore systems that cry wolf too often.
Define success as reduced blind-spot-related near-miss incidents reported through vehicle telemetry and driver feedback.

Prioritizes low-distraction, automatic activation tied to the turn signal, rather than a feature the driver must remember to check manually.
Names haptic feedback as the alert mechanism, appropriate for a safety context where visual or audio alerts could distract further.
Addresses alert fatigue directly, showing awareness that oversensitive safety systems get ignored or disabled by drivers.

Proposing a feature requiring active driver attention to a screen, which increases distraction during an already demanding maneuver.
Ignoring the false-positive problem, which causes drivers to distrust and eventually disable safety alerts.

How would you test this system's reliability before deploying it to real drivers?
How would you handle the feature's behavior differently for motorcycles versus cars in the blind spot?