Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticket

[Jackson]

Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticket

An early adopter of Google's Internet-connected eyeglasses plans to fight a citation for wearing the device while driving in San Diego, saying the technology makes navigation easier than smartphones and GPS devices.

Driver Cecilia Abadie was pulled over for speeding Tuesday evening, when a California Highway Patrol officer noticed she was wearing Google Glass and tacked on a citation usually given to drivers who may be distracted by a video or TV screen.

A challenge to what may be a first-of-its-kind citation could force authorities to re-examine laws and consider how best to regulate evolving gadgetry that will one day become mainstream.

The lightweight eyeglasses, which are not yet widely available to the public, feature a hidden computer and a thumbnail-size transparent display screen above the right eye. Users can scan maps for directions — as well as receive Web search results, read email and engage in video chats — without reaching for a phone.

Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticket


I don't think these glasses should be illegal. The whole idea is not to take your eyes off the intended target in front of you.

Eating in your car, traditional GPS and road billboards are certainly more distracting.

 

[TheBarber]

Google Glass =

 

[Jackson]

It's like a pair of glasses except the a tiny "thumbnail television" in it. You have to read about it.

 

[Barbarap]

I'm not completely sure how these glasses work.... Does one have to focus their eyes on one spot within the glass lens to use the device?
It would seem to me that would mean taking the focus of your sight away from the road...

Perhaps they work differently and I'm missing something here...

 

[Jackson]

I'm not completely sure how these glasses work.... Does one have to focus their eyes on one spot within the glass lens to use the device?
It would seem to me that would mean taking the focus of your sight away from the road...

Perhaps they work differently and I'm missing something here...

I'm sure we will be hearing more about them in the future.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

They should be banned for drivers as should all electronic toys the psychopaths like to play with while driving. That includes radios.

The auto industry is behind this "toys in cars" campaign. Car crashes mean car sales.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Dear God. When google becomes self-aware we're all screwed.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Good, I hope she wins.




Handless system that allows people to drive.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Good, I hope she wins.




Handless system that allows people to drive.

You're a nutcase. You want drunk driving legalized too and no speed limits!!! Get help please.

 

[KokomoJojo]

Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticket

An early adopter of Google's Internet-connected eyeglasses plans to fight a citation for wearing the device while driving in San Diego, saying the technology makes navigation easier than smartphones and GPS devices.

Driver Cecilia Abadie was pulled over for speeding Tuesday evening, when a California Highway Patrol officer noticed she was wearing Google Glass and tacked on a citation usually given to drivers who may be distracted by a video or TV screen.

A challenge to what may be a first-of-its-kind citation could force authorities to re-examine laws and consider how best to regulate evolving gadgetry that will one day become mainstream.

The lightweight eyeglasses, which are not yet widely available to the public, feature a hidden computer and a thumbnail-size transparent display screen above the right eye. Users can scan maps for directions — as well as receive Web search results, read email and engage in video chats — without reaching for a phone.

Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticket


I don't think these glasses should be illegal. The whole idea is not to take your eyes off the intended target in front of you.

Eating in your car, traditional GPS and road billboards are certainly more distracting.

can equally make a case that a speedometer or anything that requires your eyes to leave the road is distracting. maybe if her speedometer was piped in she would not have been speeding LMAO

 

[whitehall]

How could anybody claim it's not distracting to surf the web while operating a motor vehicle? Of course it is. Are there any stupid people out there who compare a billboard you glance at as you pass it at 75 with a web site that stays on your head?

 

[KokomoJojo]

They should be banned for drivers as should all electronic toys the psychopaths like to play with while driving. That includes radios.

The auto industry is behind this "toys in cars" campaign. Car crashes mean car sales.

imagine driving a plane downtown!




actually much of the dangers of driving could be eliminated should we ever get to a point of computer assisted cars.

 

[KokomoJojo]

How could anybody claim it's not distracting to surf the web while operating a motor vehicle? Of course it is. Are there any stupid people out there who compare a billboard you glance at as you pass it at 75 with a web site that stays on your head?

if its voice controlled not very since you are not concentrating on content as much as just getting to what you want to find.

I have not seen it but its the size of a thumb and it sounded like it was transparent so your eyes never really leave the road.

I would enjoy testing one for shits and giggles.

 

[whitehall]

It's impossible to focus on two things at the same time. Anybody who has ever tried target shooting knows that the sights need to be in primary focus while the target is in the fuzzy background. It's even more dangerous for your eyes to be searching for a thumbnail sized image in your primary vision while the road is in the hazy background at 75 mph.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

can equally make a case that a speedometer or anything that requires your eyes to leave the road is distracting. maybe if her speedometer was piped in she would not have been speeding LMAO

Hey stupid. You have to check your speed occasionally while driving. You don't have to be watching porn, though i'm sure a sicko like you would love that.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

actually much of the dangers of driving could be eliminated should we ever get to a point of computer assisted cars.

And that will cost a fortune. We could just as easily cut highway crashes by 90% by simple things like lowering speed limits and mandating 5 year license suspensions for things like drunk driving and text driving and doing 20 mph over the speed limit. Won't cost a thing. THINK

 

[ShootSpeeders]

It's impossible to focus on two things at the same time. Anybody who has ever tried target shooting knows that the sights need to be in primary focus while the target is in the fuzzy background. It's even more dangerous for your eyes to be searching for a thumbnail sized image in your primary vision while the road is in the hazy background at 75 mph.

Yup - focus on the sights not the target. My man jeff cooper preached that for decades.

 

[KokomoJojo]

actually much of the dangers of driving could be eliminated should we ever get to a point of computer assisted cars.

And that will cost a fortune. We could just as easily cut highway crashes by 90% by simple things like lowering speed limits and mandating 5 year license suspensions for things like drunk driving and text driving and doing 20 mph over the speed limit. Won't cost a thing. THINK

you trying to piss me off is that it?

well get your fascist government in check and it wont cost much at all

kids are building automated stealth drones they scan the hood with from their laptop for a lousy couple hundred bucks. fucking neanderthal

 

[Jarlaxle]

He's just troll...ignore him!

 

[ShootSpeeders]

And that will cost a fortune. We could just as easily cut highway crashes by 90% by simple things like lowering speed limits and mandating 5 year license suspensions for things like drunk driving and text driving and doing 20 mph over the speed limit. Won't cost a thing. THINK

you trying to piss me off is that it?

well get your fascist government in check and it wont cost much at all
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Fascist? HAHAHA. Stopping people from injuring others is precisely what govts are for. Why do you think DUIs and extreme speeders should get off with a lousy fine? They are killers and you are a criminal coddler THINK