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Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine
jfruh writes: More and more research is suggesting that it isn't safe to text or even talk on our phones hands-free while driving, but one brave car company is pushing full-speed in the other direction. Nissan has created a concept car in which every surface, including the entire dashboard and even the seats, is a display device. The car is the result of "extensive" surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
Woo, Now I can get even MORE distracted while driving.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
If you need entertainment you aren't driving fast enough.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
It's the only way this makes sense. Otherwise, it's death and lawsuits waiting to happen.
Let's hope this isn't a matter of forcefully connecting with another car and sharing the experience of vehicle extrication.
1. More Distraction
2. More Accidents
3. More car buyers
4. PROFIT!
Bye!
Nissan is a Japanese company that probably explains why they're building a litigation magnet.
When a pedestrian gets killed by one of these cars the assumption will be that the driver was "connecting and sharing the experience with friends" instead of driving and the lawsuit will include Nissan for *intentionally* creating that distraction.
This car is obviously designed to be self-driving. As such, it makes sense to add a ton of displays. If such a car gets built, it will almost certainly be designed to turn all displays into driving controls (speed, engine temperature, fuel, etc.) whenever manual control is activated.
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...if it was hooked up to external cameras and could be used to see more of your surroundings while you're operating a vehicle responsibly.
It's a concept car. It's a showpiece designed to attract attention and nothing else. Picking on it for being unrealistic is like picking on a fashion show because the dresses would never hold up to actual wear. That's not what they're meant for.
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I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
...young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."...
When they see their insurance rates skyrocket due to all the accidents they cause, the "young people" surveyed may come to a different conclusion. (and I'm not even going to mention the number of innocent people who are killed due to these distracted drivers. OK, I did mention it.)
Once they are hacked to work while the vehicle is in motion, mount cameras on the front and bottom of car and display real-time onto dash and seats. You can pretend you're hovering!
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
The car is the result of "extensive" surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
When all you're doing is sharing and connecting, when do you have time for experiencing?
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Sadly I expect the others to follow. I want a car with less crap in it, not more. I want a car with a good radio (AM, FM, aux in, USB, weather band) and that is about it for the infotainment system. If they have to put in a fucking screen (since everyone is doing the backup camera thing and I hare rumors of wanting to make it mandatory) then give me the option to use that screen to display all of the diagnostic info the car pukes out instead of needing some special vendor specific tool beyond just a bog standard OBDII scanner. I don't want stupid OnStar, your shit sat nav, the ability to talk to my car, your trash touch interface, etc.
Time to offend someone
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Someone needs to get the list of those surveyed and disallow them from ever having access to driving a vehicle of any kind. Well give them a bike, at least then if they kill someone it'll most likely be themselves.
"young people" are already entrenched in debt, whats a little bit more ?
Time in my car is spent going from A to B. Any other idea is just stupid.
You want a concept car? Give me one that drives itself everywhere and gets good mileage whether it be gas or electric. If I want to connect or share experiences, I have devices already capable of doing it.
More and more research is suggesting that it isn't safe to text or even talk on our phones hands-free while driving,
No it isn't. Plenty of research is showing that driving distracted can lead to worse driving, but there is no data to suggest that this is leading to more accidents. This is basic statistics. If you want to show talking on phones hands free while driving is contributing to accidents, you need to compare the four cases {distracted, not-distracted}X{journey-completed-without-accident, journey-ended-with-accident} over many journeys randomly selected from the population of all journeys.
The so call 'research' is finding univariate associations with things that you can't string together into multivariate conclusions. Put simply, there is nothing to address how people adapt to driving distracted. Just as drunk drivers tend to drive within the speed limit and stop at stop signs to avoid being pulled over, phone users typically know they are distracted and compensate by picking the time they do it to lower complexity driving situations. This adaption hopelessly confounds any broad conclusions about the data that has been collected.
Road accidents have been going down while phone use has been increasing.
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Every time I am nearly run off the road it is usually 40-something soccer mom in a minivan full of screaming kids, checking her facebook while eating and appying makeup at the same time. Young people usually take a bus, since none of them have a job that could afford them pay young people insurance rates.
Why, oh why, would you want to put "play" and "pause" icons on the accelerator and break pedals. And all that "concept" yet no cup holders?
Taxis and busses are already covered in ads, and some of them are now animated. With its solid (i.e., easy to scrub down), this car seems like it's ready made to be a taxi.
Yes, PROFIT for Google. The bottom line is that driving is a boring time-pig. We've outgrown it. If a google-like car can automatically take us through our usual routes such that we can surf the Interwebs during that time, that's a great thing as far as I'm concerned.
Let the robots do the grunt work!
Table-ized A.I.
The car is the result of "extensive" surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
No, it shouldn't! It should be a time for concentrating on driving. What the fuck is wrong with you???
"Young people" are f*cking idiots.
Well, that's gonna make an eye-catching air-bag.
Table-ized A.I.
Instant noodles and this! What an amazing company.
Do a little profiling during the daily commute. If I see a "young person" behind the wheel of a Nissan, give them a wide berth as they're likely to be causing an accident any moment.
(WTF was Nissan's design team thinking? Were they even?)
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The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
...is a few multi-million dollar judgements against the drivers and Nissan plus plenty of jail time should fix this problem...
Also the thing should take me to my location without constant supervision... c'mon now we pretty much have all of the other science fic stuff from yesteryear
There seems to be no shortage of idiots looking at their phone when they should be paying attention to their driving. It isn't the end of the world if you can't check your phone for a short period of time.
We have lakes so you can spend time in your car connecting with friends. Install a wider back seat, you morons.
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Are they using all those screens to show what is outside the car?
They know the imbeciles will not be able to resist the shinies. They know it will result in increased accidents, maimings and deaths. So when does a car manufacturer become accountable for provoking the imbeciles? At what point does adding extra attention-diverting gadgetry become manslaughter?
Yes, those who are intelligent and possess self control will be able to focus on the road. For them though it will also become more difficult.
Hey guys, let's take a selfie of us crashing this car with no survivors! #YOLO
Nissan does silly marketing gimmick, and it works.
Oh, you think the "young people" were asked about safety or the advisability of driving a socially networked pinball machine on the midst of rush hour traffic?
There's a reason that you almost never get to read the actual survey questions or 'data' that's collected which supposedly justify the shiny new concept being dangled before your glazed pupils by marketers. Their job is to collect your eyeballs, and they were successful.
There is no way talking on the phone with hands free is any more distracting than talking with someone sitting in your car. If that is the case than you may as well make it illegal for anyone to talk in a car while driving, this is just stupid.
Does this remind anyone else of the Wall-E chairs? Maybe this is BnL's first prototype?
What happened to down time, to just relax and ponder things quietly? I miss down time, like the quiet before movies with boring classical music and still ads on the the screen. I miss the timeouts at sporting events that didn't have every second filled with shiny screen and blaring music. I miss conversations in rooms where over half of the occupants in a room are not holding a screen in front of them. The simple things in life are apparently too simple, I guess.
.. to stop talking at me while driving ;)
It still has a set of driving controls - it would be fine as an autonomous car.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Why not ask average drivers what they want from a car?
I'm sure you'll get some great results from that.
Realize that more people under 25 do drugs than those over 25. Never listen to them for marketing.
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Maybe I'm just old and cranky*, but I would hate the living shit out of this if I was a passenger or a driver.
Honestly, this thing should be marketed as "The Ultimate ADHD Inducer".
"Hey kids! Feel like you can focus on things for too long? Thanks to our advanced technology vehicle, we have the solution!
Just spend 24 hours in our Mobile ADHD-O-Matic and never again will you be plagued by long, useful attention spans!
Just one short exposure, and you too can have the long term memory of a goldfish! Never be forced to concentrate on anything ever again!
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* Okay, so there's no "maybe" about it, but still...
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Or am I the only one to think that?
You know that line about "the customer is always right"?
well, sometimes the customer is just fucking wrong. and a moron.
This already exists. It consists of any teenager on FB/Twitter. It's in deployment and has been replicated in the billions.
what they wanted when driving.. Surprising 100% said more heroin.
I just want my phone to call people. I just want my car to go. I want my refrigerator to be cold inside. I want my computer to communicate via email, www, viewing YouTube, online shopping other bullshit, and sometimes to actually compute shit. Why can't things just do what they are for instead of all sorts of other stuff?
I do not want a beer can refrigeration compartment on my phone, a TV in my car, an internet connection on my refrigerator, or my computer to have an engine, wheels, and able to take me to physical places vs. virtual places.
on our phones hands-free while driving and talking to someone that is in the same car? I see the risk as the same
Who are the bigger idiots here, Nissan or "young people"?
No wonder the younger gens are fat as hell - "Jabba the hut" would be proud