Friday, January 8, 2010

When synching becomes lethal

Last week, Ford’s CEO unveiled plans to include on-board technologies to allow drivers access to twitter, movie times, maps and internet radio through an 8-inch touch screen. This comes as an attempt to make the brand viable in the coming decade, even as the U.S. car industry is faltering in the current economic climate.

How necessary is it, though, to twitter while driving? Or to check the latest movie times? If humans cannot be trusted to talk on a cell phone without getting distracted from the task at hand, driving, how can they be trusted when in-car capabilities actually take their eyes off the road?

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