Seriously. No auto manufacturer will go for this because it will either a.) violate safety regulations or b.) result in countless lawsuits when the computer becomes part of drivers' brains. Plus, you couldn't market a car like this with all of the safety ratings and reviews that are available these days before a car is even on the street. Maybe if you rigged some sort of projector system that threw the display onto the wheel, but this is just ridiculous.
There are not legally binding regulations to my knowledge that say what you have to put on a steering wheel. Many cars don't have airbags so it's not really a problem. In any case i'd take computer over airbag anyway. Stick with seatbelts.
As for changing settings on the fly being dangerous, well if you've got this sort of money to burn on an in car computer then you're probably a reasonably clued up driver.
Remember that this isn't going to be marketed to the safety conscious public is it? It's like Dell don't invite all their elderly customers to overclock the hell out of their Inspirons. And why would any safety watchdog bother to review it? Their consumer demographic isn't likely to cover it.
Perhaps on Top Gear, but they're hardly going to worry about safety now, are they?
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Let's see... Airbag or computer, airbag or computer...
Computer it is!
i hope it doesn't have apple software anywhere... you wouldn't want to be distracted by the spinning beach ball of doom.
Seriously. No auto manufacturer will go for this because it will either a.) violate safety regulations or b.) result in countless lawsuits when the computer becomes part of drivers' brains. Plus, you couldn't market a car like this with all of the safety ratings and reviews that are available these days before a car is even on the street. Maybe if you rigged some sort of projector system that threw the display onto the wheel, but this is just ridiculous.
Uh what? You do realize this was created by an auto manufacturer right?
@ Rick
There are not legally binding regulations to my knowledge that say what you have to put on a steering wheel. Many cars don't have airbags so it's not really a problem. In any case i'd take computer over airbag anyway. Stick with seatbelts.
As for changing settings on the fly being dangerous, well if you've got this sort of money to burn on an in car computer then you're probably a reasonably clued up driver.
Remember that this isn't going to be marketed to the safety conscious public is it? It's like Dell don't invite all their elderly customers to overclock the hell out of their Inspirons. And why would any safety watchdog bother to review it? Their consumer demographic isn't likely to cover it.
Perhaps on Top Gear, but they're hardly going to worry about safety now, are they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#Airbags_become_mandatory
"spinning beach ball of doom."
Is that like the spinning blue ring of doom in Vista?