At least Ford had the decency to disable some functions while the car is in motion. But I hear some others haven't even bothered with that.
No, I haven't seen a huge desire to surf the web while driving. But if you widen the definition to include voice and text then yes, people fell for these very quickly. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the bigger news stories coming out of the Consumer > Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the huge emphasis on the part of car > makers to provide drivers with full blown internet connectivity while > they are driving. Ford is pushing their Internet Dashboard which will > let drivers Tweet, to update their Facebook page, write and receive > e-mails, watch Youtube videos, search the internet, or do anything > else that they would normally do while they safely sit at a desk at > home. Critics say the auto industry must be deaf, dumb and blind to > safety issues already made perfectly obvious by drivers who use their > cell phones or other electronic devices while operating their > vehicles, or do other things that distract them while behind the > wheel. Critics are calling this a disaster in the making while the > industry says they are just trying to sell cars by meeting the > "demands" of consumers. > > Yeah, all my friends and acquaintances have been screaming bloody > murder for years to be able to use the internet while driving, haven't > yours? > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
