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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."
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.
The summary misleadingly forgot to mention that
"The display function only works when the car is parked. In drive mode, all the driver can see are the various meters and controls necessary to drive the car and any maps that might be needed. "
It's the only way this makes sense. Otherwise, it's death and lawsuits waiting to happen.
1. More Distraction
2. More Accidents
3. More car buyers
4. PROFIT!
Bye!
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.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
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.
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.
Any chance they were assuming they were not the driver?
When my son is in the car, he spends his time either talking with me, or with the world through his phone.
If everyone drove Google Cars (and equiv), that wouldn't happen. A robot car wouldn't typically be programmed to be rude (or the vendor will get sued).
But even before that, I suspect the average Google reflexes are faster than the average human driver's. People's attention tends to come and go.
Plus, if the auto-car has a cam, then you have evidence of the "other guy" driving like a loon. Enough get sued that way and you get fewer loons.
Table-ized A.I.
Announcer: Can a single luxury car be both the most spacious and the most compact on the market? Lexon asks you to consider a paradox.
Female Voiceover: Paradox..
Announcer: Introducing the all-new Lexon Paradox. Smaller than the competition, yet bigger.
Female Voiceover: We are through the looking glass..
[ show two groups of Lexon engineers standing on opposite sides of the screen ]
Announcer: This remarkable automobile is the synthesis of the work of two teams of Lexon engineers. Team A was asked to decrease the size of Lexon's most popular model.. while Team B searched for ways to make it bigger.
Announcer: While one team made Paradox the most expensive car in the world.. another made it the most affordable.
Announcer: One designed the Paradox to be an elegant, white luxury Sedan.
Female Voiceover: White Sedan..
Announcer: The others, a sporty red Coupe.
Female Voiceover: Red Coupe..
Announcer: One team gave it incredible stopping power.. the other gave it no brakes of any kind.
Announcer: One team was asked to give the Paradox four doors.. another designed it to have only two.. while still another gave it six doors.. and the final team, one gigantic all-purpose door.
Female Voiceover: One.. big.. door..
Announcer: And, while one team gave the Paradox dual airbags.. another designed it to shatter on impact, throwing passengers up to 300 yards.
Female Voiceover: Very, very dangerous..
Announcer: The new Paradox. The best car money can buy.
Female Voiceover: Or is it.. the worst?
God spoke to me
According to the pictures, the chairs in the Nissan are quite solid and stationary (and without any sort of cushioning, apparently). The picture at the bottom of the article that shows the inward-facing seats is the Mercedes F015.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
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!
Another fine product brought to you by RonCo(tm), makers of.... HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!
* Okay, so there's no "maybe" about it, but still...
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...