Google Glass Hands-On: Brimming With Potential, Dangerous While Driving 67
Sean Hollister at The Verge was recently outfitted with Google Glass, and he provides a report on some basic usage. There's a learning curve — the device relies heavily on what information you push from your phone, so if you haven't thought through every use-case, you'll find yourself reaching for your phone fairly often. Hollister took Glass on the road for use as a kind of heads-up display while driving, and he says it felt awesome, but dangerous. "You have to look directly at what you're photographing, so you won't be getting any safe photographs unless they're photos of the road. More importantly, Glass' ability to look up important information on the go is extremely thin right now. ... While I loved having turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps navigation floating in my peripheral vision, the display wasn't bright enough for me to see those directions while looking out the windshield of my car. I had to glance up towards the car's ceiling, or place a hand behind the cube to see where I was going. ... When another person called, I was able to pick up easily enough by tapping Glass at my temple, but the bone-conducting speaker wasn't loud enough to hear over the noise of the car. I had to enunciate extremely clearly and loudly for Glass to interpret my voice searches correctly." Hollister says Glass has a lot of potential — the things that don't work well are at least close. CNET's Scott Stein also provided a detailed perspective on how Glass works for somebody who already wears glasses: "I can see the screen with some twiddling. Glass can end up tipping to the side, and I need to prop it up with my fingers, since the nose piece isn't seated on my nose any longer."
Nooooooooo (Score:4, Insightful)
he says it felt awesome, but dangerous.
You mean a device that distracts you from driving can be dangerous?
Who would have imagined?
Projected in field of vision... (Score:5, Insightful)
How is having something that is projected into your field of vision legal for use while driving? I realize there are cars that project your speed onto the windshield but that is the projection of a 1in high font of 1-2 digits at the bottom of the windshield, and it doesn't move when you move your head...
I'm especially concerned when the author states he has to put his hand up to block the road to see what's on the Google glass's screen..
Re:Projected in field of vision... (Score:4, Insightful)
Not yet but I'm fairly certain it will be illegal to drive with these things on in California by the time a lot of them actually get sold.
Re:Projected in field of vision... (Score:4, Insightful)
Driving without due care and attention would cover this.
CHP should mail this clown a citation. (Score:3, Insightful)
Distracted driving is stupid and against the law even if there is no law against the specific means of distraction.
Re:brand new tech (Score:2, Insightful)
stop being a fool, oh.. AC.. makes sense now