Undaunted by fear of safety regulations, auto makers are piling new technologies into their vehicles: everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to services that check Facebook and buy movie tickets. These days your luxury vehicle is capable of doing everything from booking a restaurant to delivering Twitter feeds — all at 65 miles per hour.
Current regulation arguments are around stats on the correlation between texting and driving. While clearly a danger - those stats are over powered versus the number of electronic devices in cars. Before we know it people will be 20 times more likely to be in a crash while using their touch-screen display.
NHTSA’s study will assess hands-free, semi-hands free and hand-held mobile phone use and assess the risk and distraction associated with each, the administration said. In the mean time, I question if it is too soon to over install interactive devices for the driver.
Provides a great understanding on the impact SOPA & PIPA could have on us. Especially after 8:44. “PIPA and SOAP are nuclear… in the end the real threat is our ability to share things with one another.”
This is not a new quote to me, but I do appreciate the illustration that creates the timeline from life and natures usage of the tree straight through to paper and as I presume the feathers represent - death.
As individuality fades, will stands like this increase? And what impact do they really have? Do they make the shares share and the stealers steal just as much - I think so.
With yesterday’s UC Davis pepper spray incident at top of mind …. when will this end?
I’m not sure I see where Dwolla is filling a hole… Doesn’t Paypal offer the same ability for a consumer to pay with personal cash online? If not, correct me and I’ll re-evaluate my thinking.
