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Integrate iPod with Car or Risk Death

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the give-me-music-or-give-me-traffic-fatality dept.

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.""

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  1. Steering Wheel as a Clickwheel? by eighty4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  2. Sheltered much? by nosredna · · Score: 5, Funny
    anyone who "considered skipping tracks on his iPod more important than the lives of multiple humans".


    Obviously they've never had somebody 'borrow' their music player of choice and load it down with eight hours of 'Therapeutic Gong'.
  3. Easy: Link the scroll wheel to the steering wheel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Turn the steering wheel, and your get the scroll function. Horn selects.

  4. That's a GREAT idea! by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes.

    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.

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  5. Terrific! by T_ConX · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. I'm screwed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't own a car or an ipod, do I really have to die?

  7. Re:Dash mounted like an 8-Track? by Have+Blue · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why you put the standard handwritten "NO IPOD" sign in the window.