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iPad Steering Wheel Mount
kevin7kal writes "The Apple iPad is the ideal automotive communications and entertainment device. It is sized perfectly to mount using the iPad Steering Wheel Mount without obscuring the driver's view. 'I don't think that I am exaggerating when I say that the iPad Steering Wheel Mount probably has saved my life...'"
What could possibly go wrong?
I checked "Disable Advertising", why doesn't it carry over to the articles?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This is dangerous and illegal!
Cool! now I can play mario kart while I drive to work.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
In the event of an accident, the airbag will crush the iPad into your face.
...air bag deployed projectiles of death and dismemberment.
er, air bag
Although I did (finally) laugh when I read their cited patent.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Just think, when you crash and your airbag deploys, you could have the world's first iPad implant!
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As he says at the end - it's much safer than other forms of driver distraction. Which is to say: it's a much safer way to kill yourself and others.
Joking aside, and driver distraction aside, this thing is illegal as all getout. I'm pretty sure that obscuring the dash (and things like, ya know, the speedometer) isn't permitted. Making the steering wheel harder to grip (and at the ol' 10 and 2 positions, no less) makes the vehicle harder to control. Putting a relatively heavy, knife-edged*, solid object right in front of the airbag is pretty brilliant, too. Ordinarily I'd just shrug my shoulders and say "ah well, natural selection at work," except there's a pretty good chance you'll take a few people out with you. I'm hoping that he means this as a joke.
* In an accident at highway speeds, the thin edge of the iPad is as good as a knife.
Now with more realism! You can FEEL the collisions as if you were actually in them... oh wait.
If you can get the IPad to run in vertically flipped landscape mode, you can put it on top of the dashboard above the steering wheel and have it reflected in your front window. That way, you have a head-up display just like jet fighter pilots!
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
I thought I recognised the name of the chap who described this as the "must have iPad accessory".
Stnley Milgram was the psychologist who ran the famous experiments where obedience to authority was investigated by instructing participants to deliver electrical shocks to another person.
Nice reference!
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You visit the Bonneville Salt Flats, install a racing game, keep the car in low gear so you don't actually roll it, and then boom! Your iPad racing game now has force feedback.
Also not allowed to have a video screen less than a certain distance from the driver.
Also not allowed to display movies, etc., on any screen visible to the driver.
We have sane laws up here. Of course, the video I want to see is of his face as the airbag launches the iPad into it at 200 mph.
So after the lawsuits ("Apple is responsible - there was no warning not to attach it to the steering wheel") you'll have t prove you're more intelligent than a pet rock to buy one - and that should kill 90% of the iPad market.
Let this be sold through Amazon, so I can read more product reviews like this.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
How about this?
Read some of the product reviews while you're there, BTW. I guarantee at least a few good laughs.
This ain't rocket surgery.