You want full iOS in a CAR?
This is such a slippery slope it is unreal.
I see more and more people getting distracted by device entitlement on the road every day…it is just sickening. My wife and I took a road trip to see relatives in Ca for the holidays. While on the way back in traffic, I saw a guy in his car watching a movie on his dashboard mounted iPhone while driving, that should have landed him in jail, just like texting should.
So I am working hard with a friend at the DC office of the DOT to fight a lot of what you are asking for which is more i-access while driving. Your number one job when you get in your car with your driving PRIVALEGE is to operate your motor vehicle safely and that includes keep your eyes on the road, PERIOD!!!
I understand navigation, a good built in system actually makes the road safer as one is less likely distracted by trying to fiddle with things like maps, gestures on phones and iPads, etc. What is missing from most nav systems is the speed limit on the road traveled. Often when one is unfamiliar with an area and something like a semi blocks the speed limit sign, then you can be out of luck miles until the next post. So this should be part of nav info. Also what should be part of nav info is a low opacity weather overlay.
One of my cars is a 2012 Audi S4, a great safe car for where we live in snow country and the nav system in it is outstanding, it is part of the MMI and even with it being super easy to use and still keep eyes on the road, it is still distracting. I am pushing for Audi to make a separate dimmer for it, include speed limits and weather. Another example of what I am pushing for them to do is make the digital readout of the speed traveled color coded so that if I am not using cruise control, I don’t have to keep looking down to see if my speed has creeped up way above the speed limit ( easy to do in an S4 ). We are already pre-programmed to react to color in our peripheral vision so if I start to see the speed go from white to orange or even red in my peripheral vision, I can keep my eyes on the road more and be safer.
A lot of you, Apple, car makers, they are all missing the point here. They are buying into the hype that the consumer is asking for even more distracting features in their cars and are working to give it to you when they should be figuring out how to distract you less while giving you what you need, not what you want.
The roads are getting more and more dangerous everyday because people can not get off the damn phone and the LAST thing we need is for you to be able to access more distracting phone or iPad features, potentially endangering others.
This is such a slippery slope it is unreal.
I see more and more people getting distracted by device entitlement on the road every day…it is just sickening. My wife and I took a road trip to see relatives in Ca for the holidays. While on the way back in traffic, I saw a guy in his car watching a movie on his dashboard mounted iPhone while driving, that should have landed him in jail, just like texting should.
So I am working hard with a friend at the DC office of the DOT to fight a lot of what you are asking for which is more i-access while driving. Your number one job when you get in your car with your driving PRIVALEGE is to operate your motor vehicle safely and that includes keep your eyes on the road, PERIOD!!!
I understand navigation, a good built in system actually makes the road safer as one is less likely distracted by trying to fiddle with things like maps, gestures on phones and iPads, etc. What is missing from most nav systems is the speed limit on the road traveled. Often when one is unfamiliar with an area and something like a semi blocks the speed limit sign, then you can be out of luck miles until the next post. So this should be part of nav info. Also what should be part of nav info is a low opacity weather overlay.
One of my cars is a 2012 Audi S4, a great safe car for where we live in snow country and the nav system in it is outstanding, it is part of the MMI and even with it being super easy to use and still keep eyes on the road, it is still distracting. I am pushing for Audi to make a separate dimmer for it, include speed limits and weather. Another example of what I am pushing for them to do is make the digital readout of the speed traveled color coded so that if I am not using cruise control, I don’t have to keep looking down to see if my speed has creeped up way above the speed limit ( easy to do in an S4 ). We are already pre-programmed to react to color in our peripheral vision so if I start to see the speed go from white to orange or even red in my peripheral vision, I can keep my eyes on the road more and be safer.
A lot of you, Apple, car makers, they are all missing the point here. They are buying into the hype that the consumer is asking for even more distracting features in their cars and are working to give it to you when they should be figuring out how to distract you less while giving you what you need, not what you want.
The roads are getting more and more dangerous everyday because people can not get off the damn phone and the LAST thing we need is for you to be able to access more distracting phone or iPad features, potentially endangering others.
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