Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Mom has all the fancy gizmos in her car.
So, I was driving with her a few weeks ago (I was driving her car), and she decided to program in the nav system. NOTHING WORKED. We had had this problem before too.
After getting to our lunch spot, I decided to look at it, and it was very straight-forward. Everything worked for me.
It turns out that the Nav system has a lock-out feature that you can't reprogram it while driving. Not even the passenger can change it. She had never noticed that before, because when she drives her own car, she always stops before updating the Nav system.
Anyway, it makes some sense, I suppose. I never liked to take my eyes off the road to use it anyway.
As far as cell phones, prudence would seem wisest. One could use a text to speech interface, but in that case, why not just talk on the phone (hands-free, of course).
I have been on straight, rural freeways in low traffic where checking an e-mail just didn't seem to make much difference.
Sure, and it makes sense in such a location... such as the wide open areas of Texas or Wyoming... but that isn't the only place people check messages... and apparently folks have a hard time with prudence... somehow they assign a higher importance to some incoming message, vice the need to pilot a powered heavy vehicle in among other vehicles and people. The irony of course is that messages and voice mail all wait in a queue until you are in a good place to access them...