My wife and I have to buy a house in the Bay Area for most of the past month (if you sell in Oakland, hit me up) and as you would imagine that by means of input a set of addresses in a number of different navigation systems. Since I got the ability of a brain-damaged directional buttons opossum, the proliferation of in-car GPS (and mobile applications map) has also moved a favor an absolute necessity.
But there is a problem ..
About half of the vehicles block destination entry while the car is in motion - a serious PITA when you go to a fixer-upper next bounce ..
Now we are aware that voice control the future and the public should not be fiddling with touch screens and all-in-one control while driving through a school zone, but what if you have a perfectly seated in a position passenger in the have is sitting next to you?. Since 1998, the FBI passenger-side air bags are required, and for the better part of a decade is one of the requirements that a weight sensor that detects whether a person is sitting on the seat, "5th percentile female" in the - essentially come in more than 100 pounds (give or take). It is as a security measure designed so that when a child or infant in the front passenger seat if the airbag goes boom, they will not be violated.
? Why, then, that the sensor be assessed for one more thing by co-opting of the sensor, whether an occupant in the passenger seat could automaker assume that a competent person - not the driver - can operate the navigation and infotainment systems, while the vehicle is in motion.
We have the airbag read the law and can not find any verbiage prohibiting car manufacturers that achieved just that, we out to see some of what - if any - reasons why it was not for implementing such a system. The responses were as expected cryptic, but the basic principle was sound: How do you prove there is a person, not a 100-pound bag of sand (or a car Blogger's padded laptop bag) in the passenger seat?
Scott Geisler, General Motors technical expert on driver workload and wireless security, was so kind to us and our humor Hairbrained idea, but as you would expect, it comes to detection. "Could the sensor used to be a little signal? Yes, possibly. But there are some other things that do receive it as easy as you think," said Geisler us. "As the sensor for the presence of a passenger, you know nothing else that's useful when trying to assess the confrontation with the center stack system. You do not know who is involved."
The same feeling has been a spokesman for Nissan, who pointed out that it a long-standing gentlemen's agreement in Japan lock all navigation functions while the vehicle is in motion, but not everybody in this agreement (thank you, Honda echoed signed). In the same unspoken arrangement has filtered on our shores and is not only the most Japanese vehicles is limited, but some national and European brands, such well.One point that was brought in almost every conversation was the lack of federal regulation for navigation and infotainment systems. And the automakers want it to stay. is passed with the hands-free mobile phone requirements in several states and vehicles are increasingly connected, there is a noticeable interest from the automotive manufacturer, that the FBI will step in to enact the distraction of the driver. Rather than wait, that happened to the state or federal level, car manufacturers are trying to proactively address legislative concerns and avoid sweeping legislation.
"We try to make this a moot point." Geisler says. "We have ways to move this lock-out situation," citing OnStar ability to target either a server or the call center by pressing a key or send two.
Unfortunately, not every trip an OnStar-equipped vehicle or packaging the latest voice recognition technology (a la Ford SYNC) is. But the continued development and expansion of systems - both on the OEM and aftermarket sites - ie destination input on-the-go easier on a lot in the near future. And it can not come soon enough.
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