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Carmakers Prepare For Augmented Reality Driving

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-have-enough-trouble-driving-with-the-regular-reality dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Car manufacturers at CES are showing off their future integration of mobile computing technologies and automobiles. Quoting CNN: 'As digital tech — and our expectations for it — becomes more mobile, carmakers are taking notice. Many automotive designers here seem to have taken inspiration from smartphones, with their promise of being always connected and their vast menu of apps for every purpose. ... Simply point your hand at them, and the icons open to show real-time information: when that bridge over there was built, what band is playing at that nightclub on the left, whether that new café up the street has any tables available. Wave your hand again, and you've made a restaurant reservation. ... All these advancements may make driving more interesting. Or they may spoil one of modern society's last refuges from the hyper-connected digital world. Either way, they are coming soon.'"

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  1. Re:Stop multi-tasking! by dintech · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have a wife too?

  2. Thump! by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    And here's the Facebook page of that pedestrian you just ran over.

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    1. Re:Thump! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1, Funny

      And here's the Facebook page of that pedestrian you just ran over.

      Had I known beforehand he had had a Facebook page, I would have mashed the accelerator to the floor.

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  3. Re:Stop multi-tasking! by dintech · · Score: 3, Funny

    (bonus points if you're actually in the car)

  4. Re:put your pencils down by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another whole what in your head? Spelling and grammar correction subsystem?

  5. Re:put your pencils down by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another whole what in your head? Spelling and grammar correction subsystem?

    I believe you can make another whole in someone's head with a whandgun.

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  6. Re:Stop multi-tasking! by youn · · Score: 3, Funny

    he is a slashdotter... bonus points if he actually leaves his parent's basement :)

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  7. Strip Club by sycodon · · Score: 3, Funny

    In local news, police are struggling to deal with the startling increase in traffic around local area strip clubs. Apparently the new "augmented reality" displays in the new cars are showing 30 second previews of their wares.

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