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Hands free = brain clog?

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Just learning to use my Nuvi GPS. Seems fine - still getting used to it. But this got me thinking ...

Is all the new electronic "hands free" technology in cars worth the risk?

Looking at some of the new flat panel displays in cars, with multiple nested menus and choices, seems like it takes a lot of "eye power" off the road and onto the screen. And even using the hands free voice activated systems seems like it could add to driving problems.

Take a look:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ds-free-mobile-driving-danger-road-users.html

You don't even need to look at the screen to use the systems. But you're thinking less about your driving.

Thoughts?
Tom
 
I know my iphone4s is definately more difficult to use while driving.
 
GBRandy said:
Well, I used siri to help send some texts while driving. Until i decided that was freaking ridiculous and just called my daughter.
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Siri doesn't speak south Louisianian. She always has trouble with what I say. Funny because I understand myself perfectly fine...:rolleyes:



"Brah, call ya' momanem...":highly_amused:
 
Complemented Siri by saying "Siri you're the best" (after she found us a place that had beer and a sandwich on our way to Montreal).
Her response: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
Then she told me she was quoting HAL (from the movie 2001 A Space Odysey).
 
"Complemented Siri by saying "Siri you're the best" (after she found us a place that had beer and a sandwich on our way to Montreal).
Her response: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
Then she told me she was quoting HAL (from the movie 2001 A Space Odysey)."

That's not scary at all.
 
Just simply the idea of talking on a cell phone hands free, was explained to me once this way...

We have all driven with someone in the passenger seat, perhaps quite often, some of us not so often, but anyway... If you are in conversation with that person and a hazard of any sort is ahead, perhaps a tight curve, a stalled car, etc... that person beside you will alert you in some way and/or let you concentrate to get past that hazard...

If you are on hands free cell however, that person on the line with you has no idea what you are dealing with, and we all know how animated and involved we can sometimes get in a phone conversation, when that same hazard is ahead of you on the road if you aren't being careful with your concentration (while balancing a hands free phone call) an accident can happen far more easily

Made sense to me when I heard it explained it that way...

Plus modern electronics - don't get me started LOL - I drive a 1994 car which is relatively simple, have never driven a one of the newer cars but I understand that they are very complex in terms of electronics, I can see how that can get very confusing...

Plus I don't want my car to parallel park for me! Is that an entirely different topic... :lol:

I heard an interesting blurb this morning on TV by a Canadian automotive journalist about automatic braking systems in modern cars, he has done some testing that proves one of them (he didn't say which car) doesn't sense the stopped object every single time, going on to explain rather ironically that the best set of eyes are wired into our heads not part of your car

Okay, rant over, and I'll keep my 1994 car it's serving me just fine... :thumbsup:
 
Amen James. I would add to that but then people would think I was just a sour curmudgeon that hates the modern world.
 
Amen x2! Well said James.

Back in WW2, an American fleet was sent into battle in the south Pacific. Weather forecasters in the US said the tropical storms would soon disappear. So the fleet continued its mission.

Despite seeing the storms increasing, the captains relied on the weather forecast. The tropical storms turned into a major hurricane. Dozens of ships were lost, hundreds of American navy men drowned.

Several months later, the admiral in charge issued a memo to all US Navy captains: never rely on someone else's machines and science to do your thinking. Use your brain, your eyes, and your experience.

"Halsey's Hurricane"


Tom
 
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