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Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard
An anonymous reader writes "I guess is was inevitable, now that BMW is letting you view and make tweets from behind the wheel, but is it really a good idea to let people run smartphone apps from their dashboard monitor? I guess for navigation you could run your favorite map-app there, but there is nothing to stop people from running other apps on their dashboard too. It might be better than texting from the handset, but I'm not sure I want people playing Angry Birds while they drive."
Would this person's prosecution for causing an accident resulting in death deter other people from behaving similarly?
Do you really think that setting up regulations to ban or approve applications that are allowed to run on a computer would deter someone more than the possibility of causing death, either theirs or others? Have you thought through the enforcement regime required to ensure people don't have "unapproved" applications loaded on their car computer? Are we talking an annual inspection of their data, or what, you must be a government approved vehicle computer system or application provider? Gee, the possibilities for abuse are just endless, aren't they?
How about we skip all that and just hold people responsible for their actual actions that actually harm others, instead of creating a police and nanny state because we're afraid someone may misuse their freedom in some minor way "we" don't approve of?
What's next, regulations about the types of toilet paper, flushing mechanisms or light bulbs "we" approve of? Ridiculous, right?
How about, mind your own damn business until it actually affects you? Have people really lost sight of liberty so much? Or do they just not think things like this through?
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
cyclist should realize that cars are real and will win everytime
in much the same way that car drivers realise that articulated lorries are real and will win everytime. No-one needs to remind a car drive of that. but apparently we need to remind cyclists all the time. I say if a cyclist doesn't get this, they shouldn't be allowed on the roads.