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Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine

Posted by Soulskill on from the autonomous-cars-can't-come-soon-enough dept.

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."

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  1. If you need entertainment. by Z00L00K · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you need entertainment you aren't driving fast enough.

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    1. Re:If you need entertainment. by TWX · · Score: 4, Insightful

      People have been debating the dangers of entertainment while driving since the first audio capabilities were added to cars.

      Any entertainment that takes away focus from the ability to drive and monitor the driving conditions is a problem. Most people don't seem to have a problem with the radio playing, music or news or talk radio doesn't seem to require attention that is normally focused on the road. Visual indicators do take away that attention though, and interactive means, even if just audio like making a handsfree phone call also take away that attention.

      Modern controls that require the operator to look to make a change or to navigate menus to make a change are a terrible idea.

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  2. Obligatory Farnsworth by HideyoshiJP · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

    1. Re:Obligatory Farnsworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I used to say that. Now I just don't want certain OTHER people to live on this planet anymore.

    2. Re:Obligatory Farnsworth by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to say that. Now I just don't want certain OTHER people to live on this planet anymore.

      MOST other people.

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  3. Re: Selfies! by Fwipp · · Score: 5, Informative

    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. "

  4. Self Driving Cars by tomkost · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the only way this makes sense. Otherwise, it's death and lawsuits waiting to happen.

    1. Re:Self Driving Cars by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, what this really makes sense is as a self driving TAXI. You can be bombarded with ads until you reach your destination. In fact, if you haven't watched enough ads, the doors stay locked until you do.

      Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, where are you?

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  5. Concept car == who cares? by Chelloveck · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Concept car == who cares? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't pick on fashion shows because the dresses wouldn't hold up to actual wear (although they wouldn't). I pick on fashion shows because the dresses are butt ugly.

      (I didn't even have to work for this shot. It is literally the first image Google threw up for "Fashion show".)

  6. Best Use of Displays by SydShamino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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!

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  7. Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live Paradox by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

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