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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isnt a Dangerous Distraction?
2014-07-05 22:08:50| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehiclesto the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted by phone calls and texts while driving. Tech companies are responding by designing what they say are safer ways for customers to stay glued to their favorite apps and online services behind the wheel. READ MORE about Google's Android Auto solution. The Article Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isnt a Dangerous Distraction? appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Driven to Distraction by Apples CarPlay
2014-04-21 00:24:41| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, but maybe the news hasn't reached Apple yet. In recently announcing CarPlay, Apple said it was 'giving drivers a smarter, safer & more fun way to use iPhone in the car.' Really? By Michael Sheldrick, Senior Editor, Fleet Management Weekly Last month at the Geneva Auto Show, Apple announced that a number of OEMS Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo showed implementations of Apple CarPlay. Since then, Hyundai announced that it will incorporate CarPlay in the 2015 Sonata, available sometime this summer. Honda is also slated to release an implementation, although a model hasnt been named. Apple is making much of the reduced ease with which common in-vehicle infotainment activities can be completed, including music, text-to-speech, hands-free voice calls, and maps and directions. READ MORE The Article Driven to Distraction by Apples CarPlay appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Rumble of Passing Trains an Unwelcome Distraction for Students at Queens School
2014-04-11 13:32:13| Railroads - Topix.net
Any New Yorker knows the subway isn't easy on the ears, but it's especially loud at a Queens school located next to some elevated tracks, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is taking steps to try and lower the volume.
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Australia: War on environment a distraction from climate change policy
2014-02-09 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: After almost six months in office, it seems that the Abbott governments reputation for action on climate change and the environment in general is in tatters. Overseas, condemnation has been directed at a government now labelled as the most hostile to its nations environment in history. And that assessment is made with scant attention to what the Coalition government is doing on climate change, where it has pulled out all the stops to bring climate change policy to heel before the interests...
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Daily Distraction: Oreo to Launch Two New Cookie Flavors
2014-01-24 21:35:45| Trucking - Topix.net
Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich is recommending the former president of Boyd Gaming Corp., Don Snyder, as the acting president of UNLV.
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