A few recent articles have surfaced based on some studies showing Google Glass to be “no safer” than phones for texting while driving. I applaud them for pointing out the glaringly obvious – that having emails and text messages pop into your field of vision while driving is distracting. The article entitled, ‘Google Glass “no safer” than phones for texting while driving’ actually manages to contradict itself numerous times in its few hundred words, going on to say “Glass wearers were more capable of regaining control of their vehicles” and “ Those texting using Glass … did return to driving normally more quickly afterwards”. But this isn’t what upsets about all this nonsense.
What annoys me is the ways in which they simply rule the technology out due to the fact that someones fat-head in your field of vision while you try to fact-time and drive is distracting. With the right apps this technology could significantly prevent texting while driving and distracted driving more broadly. “How?” You may ask. Well, let’s just think hypothetically here for a second. What-if instead of distracting you Google Glass helped you keep your attention to the road intact? It could wait until you’re stationary to make any alerts, it could even alert you to risks before you were aware of them! Hey, it could even warn you of a traffic miles before anyone else, THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES. Sorry for yelling but it really is exciting that this technology, however unfashable, has the potential to change life as we know it, IF, put to the right uses, but that’s a big if.
So c’mon, let’s a least give it a chance first.
Text n Drive Tips 