Motor, motor memory

While I didn’t have as much fun with car lights, I experienced another nice motor memory moment last week when using CarPlay. During my drive, I wanted to ask the new Siri something – but as only an occasional driver, and my phone out of sight, I was puzzled as to how to actually invoke it. I did see the new Siri app icon appear in the sidebar on the car’s screen, but tapping on that only showed me a list of prior conversations. Sure, I could probably initiate a new chat by tapping the button in the top right corner, but that corner felt really far away from where I was sitting, and didn’t feel inviting to someone who – just as a reminder – was driving a car at that time: So before giving up, I did one thing that somehow felt very natural – I pressed and held the “home” button in the bottom left corner: And… it totally worked. I feel that with any good motor memory story, your fingers do something seemingly on their own, and then it’s up to you to figure out why they did so. I believe…