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Driving With Apple Watch Issue

thedwp said:
I tend to drive with my left hand...one thing I've noticed is every time I make a turn or any movement on the steering wheel, my watch turns on, and when I finish the turn it goes off...over, and over and over.
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You should drive with both hands on the wheel where possible. This will help you to remain in full control of the vehicle at all times. ;)

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thedwp said:
It's not like I'm driving in my car all day but I'm thinking it would have an impact on the battery life during daily commutes.
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I had two 3+ hour drive's this weekend using the iPhone for navigation. Turn instructions are relayed to the watch which means you get haptic feedback and the screen displays the required manoeuvre. The impact on battery life is negligible.

The watch did tell me to stand up for a minute after an hour of driving. :rolleyes:
 
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wesk702 said:
Wouldn't even need a command at operator level. Your phone should know when you are driving according to gps. Maybe Apple will have this in the future and enable a detect driving mode.
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Detecting car movement could also be used to optionally block messages (avoiding yet another possible distraction).
 
You are driving wrong, if you lived in a proper country you would be on the left and sitting on the right in your car, driving with your right hand, shifting with your left. :eek::D;)
 
I noticed that the screen did not turn on when I raised my wrist while lying down. Probably because it was not an actual lift up? I received an alert whil reading this forum and it was tricky to get the screen to turn on.

Maybe we need a bed mode too?
 
If you still make it through the day without the watch dying what is the problem. The watch "should" be on at all times, Apple turns it off when it is not being looked at to help with battery life, people are making such an issue of is turning on when it shouldn't, which is the wrong way to look at it. I have worn a Pebble since the Kickstarter, it "lights up" all the time when it shouldn't, much ado about nothing I think.
 
It needs some low power always on mode where you can see the display without flicking your wrist. The full light should only come on when you actually tap it.

Experienced the same thing with my pebble and had the backlight turned off but due to the ink display never needed to flick my wrist to see the screen

On a side note was at the cinema yesterday watching The Avenegrs and got a ping telling me 'Time to stand up' :rolleyes:
 
Well, as far as I can tell, there's no problem here.

The people who don't mind it can leave the function on. Those of us driven batty by it (constant activations when driving or eating) can turn it off. (As I did.)
 
This is an issue with us UK drivers. I wear my watch on the left and shift gear with my left. I had a two hour drive yesterday and the watch was constantly lighting up and my movement target maxed in no time!
 
thedwp said:
I tend to drive with my left hand...one thing I've noticed is every time I make a turn or any movement on the steering wheel, my watch turns on, and when I finish the turn it goes off...over, and over and over.

It's not like I'm driving in my car all day but I'm thinking it would have an impact on the battery life during daily commutes.
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Interesting that this happens to you. I was wondering about it before getting the watch, but now that I have it and have driven with it I'm happy to report that it never comes on at all. At least I haven't noticed it, even though I paid a fair bit of attention to that in the beginning.
 
I did a lot of driving yesterday and noticed this as well. It wasn't distracting to me but I was worried it would effect the battery life. I ended the day with 46% remaining after being off the charger for 15 hours so I'd say it doesn't make much of an impact.
 
thedwp said:
I tend to drive with my left hand...one thing I've noticed is every time I make a turn or any movement on the steering wheel, my watch turns on, and when I finish the turn it goes off...over, and over and over.

It's not like I'm driving in my car all day but I'm thinking it would have an impact on the battery life during daily commutes.
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I've been driving around all weekend and I also drive with my left hand located at at 12 o'clock position on the wheel (its wrong, I know). I havent had any battery issues from the few times it lights up. Battery life is surprisingly great in regular life. I'm curious to see how it holds up during an 18 hour work day when I'm dealing with calls/emails/texts nonstop.
 
Swiss-G said:
You should drive with both hands on the wheel where possible. This will help you to remain in full control of the vehicle at all times. ;)

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I had two 3+ hour drive's this weekend using the iPhone for navigation. Turn instructions are relayed to the watch which means you get haptic feedback and the screen displays the required manoeuvre. The impact on battery life is negligible.

The watch did tell me to stand up for a minute after an hour of driving. :rolleyes:
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Does that only work with Apple navigation or includes Google and Waze navigation ?
 
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