My GPS is 3.5" which blocks less and is perfectly usable and auto zooms so I don't hafta focus on it to see. It has a "night" feature that lowers the brightness and uses a less colorful display to avoid night-blind effect of foreground contrast, and it has a "safety" feature where you set a speed over which and also below which the screen becomes unresponsive to touch so in traffic and at high speed you don't fiddle with it to distraction ...these features are adjustable and can be enabled/disabled by the user ...very nice. V7Nav730...of course, they no longer make it.
-----Original Message----- From: Jordan [mailto:jor17...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Computer gadgets in cars I agree with the comments made here on this subject but submit that the essence of the problem lies with the lack of common sense of most drivers. I have a GPS mounted on my windshield. But it is mounted such that it does not block my view of the road. And I am very careful about what kind of situation I'm in when I look at it. It seems that many or most users don't give a thought to either of those issues. I just wanted to suggest that it is not impossible to use a GPS responsibly. Constance Warner wrote: > Great essay! I'd be in favor of ticketing drivers who mount GPS units > and other such devices on their windshields, and I hope it soon > becomes similarly illegal to mount laptop support brackets inside > cars--a truly terrifying prospect. Though I don't know how a highway > patrol officer would catch someone for "computing while driving." > When the computing driver is finally pulled over and the police > officer walks up to the offending driver's car, all Mr. Distracted > Driving has to do is to shut the lid of his laptop and deny that he's > done anything wrong. Scary. (And are there even laws against > computing while driving? This sounds like one of those obvious things > you shouldn't need to be told NOT to do. But then I didn't think > anyone would be dumb enough to send text messages while driving, either.) > > Anybody who lives in this area has probably had at least one close > call with a car or other vehicle driven by a distracted driver, > especially if you're a pedestrian trying to cross K Street, Rockville > Pike, or any other road where Type A drivers cruise by with cell phones > pasted to their ears. You can be as careful as you like as a > pedestrian or a driver, but your survival, when you encounter a > texting, cell phone-talking, or computer-using driver, may still depend > largely on luck. > > Yet there's a lot of resistance to passing laws against texting while > driving. Under the circumstances, I'm not overly optimistic about > enforcement actions against other kinds of electronic distractions. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
