Your Home Office On Wheels
Your home/office on wheels is coming sooner then you might think. Pretty soon, you won’t have to go to your office to do your work, and you won’t have to go home to your family at the end of the day. Technology is quickly bringing the internet and social networking into, and on to the dashboards of new cars. Pretty soon, the glove box will be replaced by an all in one printer, fax, and copy machine.
In keeping with the theme of yesterday’s blog post, I feel it is necessary to at least question the direction that technology is taking us. Not only will the new automotive technology increase our distractibility factor, it will make it easier for us to shut out the rest of the world. Pretty soon, when a friend tells you they slept in their car, it will probably mean they were using the car as a kind of escape from the rest of the world.
The pace of technology is moving so fast, that we barely have a chance to get a taste of one type, and a new one comes along. When will we reach over load? Before we know it, psychiatrists will be treating people for technology over load and interface related disorders. Here is just one example of future automotive technology, you be the judge.
Texting While Driving
Texting and Driving don’t mix; at least that’s what the federal government thinks.
We have all heard arguments for and against using our cell phones for texting while driving. I would even bet that most of us who do text while driving have been asked on at least one occasion to stop texting by passengers in the car. If you have young children in the car or mini van, and you are texting while driving, you are probably already distracted by the children, and they don’t have a voice to ask you to stop texting.
I am totally blind, and there are not many things that scare me, but hearing the driver text while he or she is going sixty miles an hour down the highway does not leave me with a safe feeling inside.
The federal government via congress, seems determined to get into the argument. Pending legislation would link the amount of federal highway funds a state receives directly to their texting while driving laws. In affect, the federal government won’t tell individual states what they should pass for laws, but they will with hold valuable resources if states don’t conform to the federal mandates.
As a passenger, I want to be able to talk on my cell phone, and if I could see to text, I would do that too. But, if I were a driver, I would not talk on the phone, and I definitely would not text, even if the texting screen is in the middle of the steering wheel, no way, not me.
What do you think? This is an important issue that will effect us all in the future. To learn more about proposed legislation check out the link provided.
