On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Frank Gmeindl frank.gmeindl@comcast.net wrote:
What do you make of the attached 2/10/12 Wall Street Journal article, "Don't Look Now: A Car That Tweets"?
It's an 8 meg scan of a paper that is oriented so I can't read it w/out downloading and then rotating it. Blah.
Yes auto makers are addressing "customers" requests for more info, more distraction, more "more"!
One could say this is appalling but chances are this type of stuff is here to stay, we as a society are much more used to processing more info, look at how movies/tv-shows are done now compared to 10-15 years ago. We are more comfortable processing stuff now.
Or one could say that this is yet another reason for us to NOT ride on the same road as these distracted idiots. We're better off having separate lanes and all that.
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Toyota: buy movie tickets, book a table, check stock, search on Bing. General Motors: Play videos and slide shows. Tesla: Wireless Internet with 17-inch screen, USB plugs. Mercedes-Benz: Check Facebook, read Twitter posts, use Google Local Search and Yelp.
Frank
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