[ale] dialing on Android and driving will kill you and others.

[George Allen]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> And your observations are the base for my fervent desire to have either
> steering wheels removed and cars run on a track or driver isolated from
> non-drivers both visually and auditorily (and probably olfactorily as well).
>

I can't find a reference now, but a few years back I saw this article
on a highway-car-hive concept at a Japanese carshow. Basically, once
the world has only 'smart' cars, they enter the highway and each would
talk to its nearest neighbors over RF. While the driver sits back to
relax, the car would take over. It would communicate its destination
exit to its neighbors, match speed, and arrange itself in a convoy for
optimal speed, safety, etc. IE - cars in near exits would drop to the
exit lane and warn the driver to take over. Cars going further would
stay in faster lanes depending on how far. All cars would maintain
equal speed and spacing, thus preventing traffic jams. Merging is
automatically done by algorithms communicating requirements upstream
so the convoy can pre-adjust spacing. Imagine the difference for
85/75...

Of course -- people used to be able to do this too, when they were
smart enough to learn how to use the rules, brakes and turn signals in
addition to the gas, wheel and horn.

> Humans don't multi-task. At best they task-swap. And all of us know there is
> a cost to each swap on a computer and thus can imagine there's also a cost
> for a human. Add to it that 1/2 the population is below average intelligence
> (thus increasing the "I can do this just fine" factor) which adds to the
> "they're trying to kill me" factor of everyone n the road.
>
> automatic Jetson's bubble car. I really wish we were pouring as much
> research into making cheap, ultralight, automatic transport devices to
> replace what we have as are into ways to keep the mess we have going.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:21 AM, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Charles Shapiro
>> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6090342-7.html
>> >
>> > I think about this every time I bike on Atlanta streets.
>> >
>> > -- CHS
>> >
>>
>> I'd really like a study to quantify the level of distraction of an
>> in-car conversation vs. a cell phone conversation.  For the moment,
>> let's exclude the obviously dangerous dialing period, and focus on the
>> discussion.  Why is a discussion over a cell phone any worse than
>> talking to the passenger next to you?  I've seen plenty of people who
>> insist on turning their head to talk to their passenger in the car.
>> (Yes, eye contact during a conversation is good, but not when it
>> sacrifices eye contact with the road/other drivers.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1
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> James P. Kinney III
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> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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