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Watch TV On Your Satnav
Barence writes "Satnav firm Mio is launching a device with an integrated TV tuner. The Mio Spirit range includes a digital television tuner that is intended to be used 'during breaks in the journey or at their final destination.' However, safety campaigners fear there's little to stop the television being used at the wheel. When the system is first turned on a warning message is displayed, telling the user not to watch television while driving. If this is ignored, a secondary warning message kicks in if the GPS chip detects the vehicle is moving at more than 5mph. But that's it!"
Even the current GPS units/DVD players can easily be defeated. In most cases, all you need to do is ground one of the pins in the connector, and it always thinks you are parked. My brother has been playing Family Guy DVDs in his in-dash unit for years. The SAME Family Guy DVD.
Brett
Thats a first, a computer analogy to describe a car.
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safety campaigners fear there's little to stop the television being used at the wheel
Silly safety campaigners... don't they know we're too busy texting on our mobile phones while driving to watch TV?
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
Those poor morons...
And if you kill someone, you can just restore him from a backup!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Now, now, be reasonable. It's not like they copied a CD or something, all they did was endangering the lives of other people.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Umm... it's called *reckless* driving!
Wreckless driving is desirable.
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." -TP
Maybe they should do it as a HUD system, prjecting on the windscreen of the car.
And then, when they feel the need to warn you, your entire windscreen goes opaque with a giant warning message.
Blue windscreen of death
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!