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Car Window Touchscreens
An anonymous reader writes "As if we need more proof that touchscreens are all the rage, designers are dreaming up ways to put them in cars. In the video, a child gazes wistfully out the window at a dreary countryside. Fields roll by, a lake, cyclists, trees that have lost their leaves. The car stops, and the child starts 'drawing' on the window. The article includes fascinating videos showing how touchscreens might infiltrate our lives in the future."
This makes my commute so much more pleasant, I can watch videos and^J^J^ NO CARRIER
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
steam it up and instant canvas
I can't keep the kids smeary fingerprints off the car windows now.
Great, one more thing to obscure the view of driving parents who spend too much time looking at what's going on in the back seat as it is instead of paying attention to the road.
Buy your kid a tablet if you want them to be entertained with tech. Otherwise, cheap out and get an etch-a-sketch.
I've seen commercials touting the driving experience using touch screens ... The *last8 thing I want to do is take my eyes off the road to look at a menu while I adjust the volume of the car radio. It's bad enough that the controls I have now operate at a touch -- I want to be able to feel the control and know it's the right one by fell alone before I press it, all while continuing to look out the front window.,
And it costs $4000 to replace.
Goodie.
This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
That should be cheap to replace when a rock hits it.
Facebook is the new AOL
It's probably just Yet Another Slashdot Javascript Bug.
One of the first rules a toddler's parent develops is "hands off the glass! You'll get fingerprints on it!" Never has a parent actually encouraged their kids to smear their peanut-buttery fingers all over a car window.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Huh. She didn't tell me about it until last night.
Fingerprints!!!! The reason touch screens failed when they were introduced 25 years ago.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
Ads, overlaid on the real world. Inevitable with this technology.