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Integrate iPod with Car or Risk Death
An anonymous reader writes "CNET has talked to Apple about its big plans for the car. Apple say they're keen to save the lives of anyone who risks death by "reaching into the footwell of his car to retrieve an iPod nano at around 90mph" and anyone who "considered skipping tracks on his iPod more important than the lives of multiple humans". Apple are also said to be "delighted by the efforts of Mac users who retrofit the Mac Mini into cars" and are "keeping an eye on what these hackers are up to with their Macs." The writer also pitched his own design ideas to Apple's director of global product marketing, Bob Borchers: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
I've never almost died by trying to use my RF intefaced iPod on the freeway. Nope. Never.
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We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
Jesus, is it April already?
Obviously they've never had somebody 'borrow' their music player of choice and load it down with eight hours of 'Therapeutic Gong'.
Turn the steering wheel, and your get the scroll function. Horn selects.
And we could tie the accelerator to Volume control, and the brake could be the Pause button. Oh, and we could have the engine make funny clicking noises to provide sensory feedback and we would be all set.
We'd have to ban Brittany Spears though, because mayhem would quite likely ensue as thousands of drivers struggled to hit pause, turn down the volume and change tracks simultaneously.
We could call it the iPod MEGA. An iPod you can drive around in.
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I think that must already be implemented because I already see that behavior on all sorts of drivers every day.. And here I thought they were just idiots!
My rantings, only longer and with better spelling..
qoute "Hey, at least he wasn't placing a needle on a 45 while driving!"
Yeah, singles are so out. Custom 33 1/3 LP all the way.
Didn't a luxury car maker feature a turntable in one of their commercials?
"Sure, officer, I know I'm driving the wrong way, but the music's better here."
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now that I don't have to worry about changing songs on my iPod, I can free up my hands to read a magazine while talking on my cellphone and eating a Cheeseburger.
I swear! I once saw a guy do that! I wasn't driving at the time...
Seriously, when people invent stuff like this and say it's 'Fool-Proof', they're basicly just sticking their tounges out at God, says "Lord, not even you could make a human so stupid, that they could screw this up!" God disagrees, and proves them wrong with horific, yet hillarious ease.
I don't own a car or an ipod, do I really have to die?
I know when I am in a high speed chase on Santa Monica Freeway and the news helicopters are overhead, the last thing I want to be doing is fumbling for my copy of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on my ipod!
That's why you put the standard handwritten "NO IPOD" sign in the window.
"The writer also pitched his own design ideas to Apple's director of global product marketing, Bob Borchers: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
This has got to be an example of a stupid idea. WHY would ANYONE who walks upright suggest an idea as stupid as this: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes." I think that the journalist lost what credibility to his intelligence he had. Thank God someone in Marketing actually used their brain to accomplish something GOOD and shot this idea out of the sky before a manager got wind of it.
Imagine watching someone weaving a rug through traffic, trying to look for a song.
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Officer: "Sir, I noticed that you were weaving erratically through traffic! Are you ok?!"
Driver: "Yes I'm fine."
Officer: ( Puzzled, angry look ) "Then why on Earth were you weaving through traffic like that?! You cut across all six lanes, cut off a bunch of drivers and almost caused several accidents! Plus, you were speeding!"
Driver: "I was trying to find a song on my IPod. You know that song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody? I can't find it on here."
(sounds of a motorist being beaten with a ticket book)
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Sig Sauer
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
...if everyone drove bumper cars we wouldn't be having this discussion.
All jokes aside, this is slashdot, so I'm not sure you actually needed to explain why playing vinyl records in a car doesn't work that well :-)
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