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Lobbying Against Having Google Glass Banned While Driving

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 01 2014, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-see-it,-now-you-don't dept.

Rich26189 writes:

"In a somewhat pre-emptive move Google is lobbying against state legislation that would ban drivers from using Google Glass while driving. I, for one, would like to see such legislation passed. There is enough distracted driving due to hand-held cell phones and Google Glass would just be just one more task for the brain to cope with.

This from Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/25/us-googl e-glass-lobbying-idUSBREA1O0P920140225"

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by big_e on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:13AM

    by big_e (2513) on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:13AM (#9546)

    We already ban texting and even phone-in-hand calling based on the ASSUMPTION that people can't do this and drive at the same time. Even if you were able to prove you CAN do this, its still not allowed.

    That is exactly the problem. There are many people who THINK they are above average drivers and can handle texting while driving, when in reality they are just as bad as the rest of us. The studies and statistics don't lie, people CAN'T text and drive safely but the person who does justifies it to themselves as being the lone exception to the rule.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:56PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:56PM (#9734)

    I know a woman who could carry on a conversation via sms with an old school dumb phone using only the T-9 keyboard with one hand. She typed complete sentences never once looking at the screen. She'd peek to read, but really, she never took her eyes off what she was doing. She refused to move to a smartphone.

    (Not advocating this, just pointing out absolute statements are never absolute, and also reminding you that lying with statistics is time proven art.

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    • (Score: 1) by zsau on Monday March 03 2014, @06:38PM

      by zsau (2642) on Monday March 03 2014, @06:38PM (#10296)

      Proves nothing. I don't need to look at the keyboard I'm typing this on (even if I did, it wouldn't help because the letters don't correspond at all to the key I want), but that doesn't mean I can pay attention to what's happening around me and to what's happening on screen.

      This is the entire point of the stats and the studies and the bans: you don't realise how much attention you're taking off the rest of the world to write something down, especially when you don't need to look at it to tell what you're doing.

      And you don't realise how long the half a second you look down at the screen is, and how quickly the half a second becomes five seconds.