Some cars allow you to read text from your dashboard but again, your eyes are off the road, would anyone like to get involves in a solution that eliminates the problem (marketing guys really) please PM.
It's so tempting to just pick up the phone and to read the text, but it is now just as dangerous as speaking on a mobile whilst driving, if not more so because you can put the phone beside your ear and hold it with your neck and still see ahead...
haha - I'm the opposite: I'd like to see cars with a 2' radius (from the steering wheel) of electronic interference. That way it would be impossible for the driver to use his phone or text while driving, while still allowing passengers in the vehicle to use theirs.
I maintain that only stupid people text/use cell phones while driving. It is a selfish and unsafe act. Maybe I feel that way because I ride a motorcycle and am at a greater risk if hit by an inattentive driver (of which I see many)
Just imagine how cool it would be though if you could read a message with your visor on
Has no one invented a phone which will read texts out loud so you don't have to look at it?
Phoning and/or texting whilst driving is a big no no in my book.
Erm no could you imagine driving on the motorway or any road and suddenly a text message was in your face very dangerous
great idea.
A big no no with me too a women nearly hit us while she was on her mobile phone bloody hate people using mobiles while driving. If you need to make a call or text PULL OVER
Yes, but it was condemned by the AA because, stupid as we drivers are we spent time looking around the car wondering where the noise was coming from, which actually made it more dangerous, even when the phone was racked in front of them, drivers never got used to a un-interactive message being played, the secret is to keep your eyes on the road at all time and have interaction at the same time...
Difficult to achieve in a one way message..
My Nokia E72 can read out text messages.
Texting while driving is a very serious offence in Switzerland, immediate loss of license!
This thread reminds me of the movie "Seven Pounds", which I thought was a great film:
Most smart phones can too, the danger is, and it has been documented, is that for it to be a safe option, interaction is required, unlike a radio or other car noise when a text comes in it is not predictable, it startles and leaves the listener tempted to interact to it like a telephone...
There is a solution that covers all the main objections but it wont be ready for a while, in fact expect your kids to be using it far sooner than you do
Awful, but so easily done !
Texting and driving - NO I keep seeing lorry and van drivers texting and driving - here, in France, in UK too
You Bet Great Film
Texts are never important - if anything is ever important then the normal talk function should be used ...... and this should include the skint student wallahs - yes I'm talking to you - you stingy bastards.
Half the texts I get, are only from the network operator, offering me some p-o-s, useless offer; or telling me it's going to cost a fortune to use my phone, because, I'm now off-grid and in the clutches of some foreign power or another.
When I drive, I use a basic, cheap (30chufs) in-the-ear Bluetooth device, which is just as easy to use as scratching the ear .... and certainly quicker and safer than picking my nose. Why doesn't everyone?
..... and as for being startled by a strange TTS voice, I struggle to believe that any meaningful research has been undertaken.
The silly old bat that gives me directions (GPS, not the wife), will tell me to drive straight ahead for 100+klicks and then have a kip for best part of an hour, when all of a sudden she'll belt out "Prepare to leave the motorway in 2km".
I don't start looking around the car interior, thinking that my past has caught up with me.
He He, here's the touchscreen in my Jag....
Ironically you can only access the messages when the vehicle is stopped...
GPS is different, you know it and expect it, the study was taken after a number of incidents regarding texting and driving deaths, many people who text you are not aware you are driving either, a call would be better especially if you had hands free...
It is a growing problem and there are very few solutions out there, on windscreen projection is one that a few companies are looking at, I think this is a bit more disturbing...
And rightly so...
I was out and about in the car earlier in the week around Dietlikon and saw police pulling people over for what must have been offences such as phone use and no seat belt.
They'd set up a police lady behind an advertising hoarding who was then radio-ing down to a group of assembled police further down the road. Offenders were then picked off and redirected into a side road.
In the time I was sorting my stuff out in the car park opposite to waiting at the nearby traffic lights (5 mins?) they must have pulled over about 20 cars. Must have made a fortune...
I go back to my point above ..... texts are never critically important and can wait ....... but I'm too old to have grown up as one of the texting generation - thank God.
I still believe in face-to-face, and failing that, voice calls (hands free when driving).
Obviously, anyone sending or trying to read texts whilst driving doesn't deserve to breath the same air as me - send then to Mars for a holiday.
Any HUD that requires the motorist to try to read and drive at the same time is flawed. Voice texts are the answer .... and with a proper ring tone and warning - I really can't see the problem.
You mean a Heads Up Display it's not a new idea many manufacturers have utilised this, putting the speed up on the windscreen and so on.
The problem is making it work in every concievable lighting condition...bright sunlight obviously washes out the image.
I've gotta ask, what's your angle here onei?