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Google Glass Integration For Cars Is Coming: Neat Idea Or Crazy Town?
cartechboy writes "Americans have enough trouble keeping from texting their way to dangerous — or worse — situations in cars. But now car makers, looking to differentiate with tech integrations and after jamming iPhone everywhere, are working hard at integrating Google Glass into vehicles. Consider this quote: 'Within seconds, I've got step-by-step directions to a coffee shop down the street beamed directly to my eyeballs.' Aside from being a little Jetsons, sounds potentially problematic. (Note, Mercedes had been doing R&D since July.) It goes without saying that someone is working on an integration of their own with a Tesla Model S. There is a coolness factor, there may be some utility — but not sure this is a great idea."
yeah right
Car, I'm bored, take me to somewhere interesting. I'll take a nap while you drive.
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what is the top and bottom quarter of my windshield now going to have banner AD's beaming me garbage I either A) already bought, or B) have zero interest, in as I drive down the road?
I can see the potential of such a heads up system, but I also know how Google makes its money, its not by charity.
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I'm really stumped on this one. New cars are coming out with all kinds of distractions, like web browsing and now this. If we all had cars that drove themselves I would not mind. I can't see how this will result in anything different than people texting and driving. A few will use it as suggested (step by step GPS), but a few will crash into innocent people while updating Facebook or browsing the web.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Now you can launch yourself through the windshield directly into the virtual world of Google Glass. My first adware app for Google Glass will simulate a Mac truck approaching your car, right on your windshield. The driver's instinct will be to swerve off the road, right into the gas stations that pay me for this amazing new form of advertising.
YES! Spend hundreds of thousands of dollars creating all these car integration apps, then watch as cities all over the country ban google glass use while driving because its too distracting.
Although car integration for Glass makes a lot more practical sense for me than other uses, I think there are a lot of other options that give you better and richer feedback. In car screens would have more detail than Glass, HUD displays projected on your lower windshield would be better yet as they could provide a ton of useful info.
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Infrared cameras at night and in fog, anyone?
I would LOVE to see that.
But, as a projection overlaid on my windshield, or at least a pretty large projection on the bottom of the windshield. Or even in the large screen embedded in my dashboard that highlights heat sources.
Having a small floating screen that kind of messes with your peripheral vision is NOT the best way to deliver IR video feeds from the front of your car.
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This is a terrible idea. Trying to read Glass while driving is VERY difficult, and you get the false sense of security that you are still "looking" at the road, when really you are not at all focused on anything in front of you. I tried it for a bit and was amazed how hard it was and how dangerous it felt. I would never use it like that. I think I'd be safer taking quick glances down at my phone with the maps app than trying to use Glass.
After some thought I think Glass is a really bad idea for driving. Having the screen floating in your vision reduces what you can see in the same way a really badly place side pillar in the car can... I guess we can call it the G-Pillar.
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Finally!
I was wondering when I could get my old steering wheel laptop attachment.
Google Glass will allow me to pay even more attention to my e-mails on my way to work!
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I think a true heads-up display on a windshield would be much more useful than Glass. Plus it could be ensured on a true HUD, you are only seeing what you want to see (i.e. - car stats, speed, highlighted roadway/signs, etc.). I've been thinking of making one myself since there doesn't seem to be a good DIY version out on the webs. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
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Good grief. What a stupid idea.
I keep hoping for an augmented reality navigation system. Not only would it make sure I don't have to listen to some automated voice that can't pronounce street names, but it'd make sure my son stops complaining about how he can't see any bears to our left or right, no matter what the navigation system says.
Now that I think of it, instead of an arrow, the system could display a very realistic grizzly bear in whichever lane I am supposed to use to get to the highway's exit.
It will go well with my HD TV windshield and the Beats by Dre headphones I wear whenever I drive.
Turn-by-turn directions that appear to be floating in the air 8 feet in front of you, a little up and to the right so they're out of your central field of vision, seem like a safer option than putting the same directions on a screen in the center of the console and much safer than on a little handheld screen.
Short of an actual HUD, Glass seems like the ideal way to display driving-related information. In theory, at least. I've read that the current generation isn't quite bright enough, so directions are hard to see. That may be fixed in the public release model, dunno.
Of course, people can (and some will) use Glass for other, distracting, purposes while driving. But that's hardly the fault of the technology.
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Except that if someone is going to be a crappy driver, they're going to do it with or without technology. Technology is simply the boogeyman that the media uses rather than simply admitting that there are some poor drivers on the road. A crying child in the backseat is infinitely more distracting than a radio/cell phone/Google Glass
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What if the windshield fogs over at a critical moment during your trip???
Well being a white surface on which the projection would be even more visible I'd be pretty damn happy I had an IR view of the road ahead instead of nothing at all!!
I would of course run the defroster rather than rely on the video for long...
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Even wearing headphones is prohibited in IL (and I expect many other states).
How would this Glass distraction, in front of your eye at all times, help you be a better driver? As far as I'm concerned this is even worse that texting on the road. It would be a great solution if we were concerned that taking our eyes off the road is the problem. Changing focus and distraction seems to be the issue, and I'm not sure how being bombarded with the location-aware reality overlay that is Google Glass will contribute to a decline in automotive accidents.
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They'll be covered by their car insurance.
Anyway, what makes you think your attorney is any better than theirs? And why would you think a prospective distracted idiot will know about your attorney before they hit you, especially when you're posting anonymously?
Plus, if I were planning to hit you, and did know you had an attorney (the only situation in which your ridiculous threat has any relevance) you're merely making me realise that injuring you would be foolish, and I'd better make sure I finish the job properly.
I'm not sure you've thought this through.
I have dreaming about having a display in my car for decades now. It is wonderful to see some of this technologies come to life.