“Even cars are gettin creepy wid it. Erryones a d*mn stalka now.” Although my friend isn’t so gifted with the words, he’s definitely right.
And people really need another distraction while driving? I know we’ve all see people eating, on a call, texting, or putting on their make-up while driving. Now they can check their facebook too?
This is only the beginning, Toyota is creating its own social platform for its cars. It is going to be specifically for new Toyota, and it will be called Toyota Friend. It will also be able to connect to Twitter and Facebook. The distractions have just been mounting since the integration of screens in the dash board of cars. It is leading to more and more drivers having distractions around the them. Chrysler, a year ago introduced UConnect in all the cars providing Wireless Internet to users in the car. Where is the limit to what the car is, does everything have to keep you connected to the internet. That is probably what twitter and facebook want.
The smart phone has been very profitable now lets see shat the smart car does, and I dont mean the Mercedes
Smart cars are becoming more popular and the features in them are becoming ridiculous. There are thousands of things your eyes are looking at as you drive whether or not you realize it. I think it is extremely unnecessary for cars to have such features as the internet. Social media is being integrated into every part of our lives. This video describes a new app, which gives drivers more to distract them. It’s an app for those who just had a case of road rage and want to tell the person off. Someone just cut you off? Don’t curse them out. Instead take out our phone, open the app, write down the license plate of the person who just cut you off and then complain about them. All well driving just to avoid telling them off to their face. Great way to vent and cause an accident. The best part is this driver who just cut you off can only see this if they too have the app. The chances are pretty slim since only about 20,000 people currently have this app installed. This app is completely unnecessary just like needing the OnStar button on you rear view mirror to link you to your Facebook to instantly get your news feeds.
It’s beyond ridiculous as to how much we are becoming dependent to know unimportant things right away. It’s true that since screens were put on the dashboards of cars, the distractions just keep increasing. It seemed alright to have the screen on the dashboard for navigation purposes but then so you don’t have to turn around while you park and now so that Facebook and Twitter can be part of your life even as you drive is just out of hand.
Forget just hearing Facebook updates . They have application in your car that will update twitter with your location information and things like your driving speed and with updates that is “generates” based off of things like your speed, location pattern and preferences. Tweets and Facebook updates such as “stuck in traffic” or “en route home” are made automatically. This means that you can be tweeting or updating your Facebook without even writing anything.
GM, (http://archive.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/09/gm-testing-audio-facebook-updates-in-cars.html), has also been developing software to allow you to verbally update your Facebook information via OnStar and the car will allow you to respond to text messages by picking one of 4 automated responses that you can select by pushing a button on your steering wheel.
But the question is what problems can emerge by merging social networking and driving. There have already been several fatal crashes blamed on facebook updates, (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20032067-71.html), and with more and more jurisdictions creating cell phone talking and texting while driving bans its only a matter of time before the two clash. And, of course, there is the obvious privacy issue. If information is automatically updated about you and you are always capable of updating information about how you are feeling, in the moment you are feeling it, then somethings got to give.