Computer screens on car dashboards.

[Porkypine]

Computer screen on car dashboard... sounds a bit like watching telly while you drive to me

 

[jerrytug]

Let me counter your counter claim sir

Modern cars regularly do 150k miles plus with relative ease, a run of the mill car from 30 years ago would struggle to manage that, 40 years ago they were scrap at half that (not including exotics that people paid a fortune for)
(Or the mk1 Talbot horizon your mate has had from new and it's mint, etc)

Are people more distracted? Probably
Has the law failed to keep up with tech? Definitely but it is now, 6 points and fine for using a phone, mine goes in the glovebox and stays there

My other Peugeot, before it was recently stolen, did 280,000 miles and drove like new.
People are definitely far more distracted these days.

 

[jerrytug]

Computer screen on car dashboard... sounds a bit like watching telly while you drive to me

Totally.
All the people here getting hot under the collar, defending dashboard computer screens, clearly have Red Arrows pilot levels of concentration and ultra-quick reaction times, but they are obviously the elite; the average driver, not possessing such incredible skills, *will* be dangerously distracted.

 

[mtt.tr]

Totally.
All the people here getting hot under the collar, defending dashboard computer screens, clearly have Red Arrows pilot levels of concentration and ultra-quick reaction times, but they are obviously the elite; the average driver, not possessing such incredible skills, *will* be dangerously distracted.

Well I ride motorbikes on and off-road so maybe I do have faster reactions?

I also do about 2500miles monthly certainly haven't come close to any accidents and I'm driving a lwb h2 Merc sprinter often round tight roads

 

[redlig]

Because I don't understand the rational of it, handful on here have become those that hate all things modern or current.

Dare I mention
Wind power, solar, Ev's, fusion, climate change, modern car diagnostic, modern diesels, modern cars at all and so on.

I find it really bizarre to intentionally set oneself up to not coexist with the future, by all means get stuck in the past but stop getting upset by it, it's a personal choice. Time only moves forward keep up or don't it's that simple.

Just because something is "new" doesn't mean it's" better" just different.Perhaps one should ask the question " why was it improved/changed? Was it to improve performance or to satisfy the need in customers to be seen to have something new. Also to provide a reason to make it cheaper and charge more. Manufacturers don't usually develop new stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. I get the feeling that a few who rave over the latest gizmo do so to hide the fact that they have made a mistake and can't admit it. All to his own. Signed Luddite.

 

[Munkul]

the average driver, not possessing such incredible skills, *will* be dangerously distracted.

Sounds like you're best off never driving such a vehicle, then

 

[ajlelectronics]

These "features" appear because they have to convince people to buy the latest models. Otherwise they go out of business.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Lads.....

 

[Parm]

Interesting thread

My interpretation is that there are issues with perception of risk. Some folk think having a touch screen makes a vehicle inherently more dangerous as its a distraction

Yet elsewhere on the forum we have a chop saw that been heavily modified and the inbuilt safety features have been disabled and replaced with an alternative. Some folk seem to think this is a good upgrade

Absolute bonkers

 

[Seadog]

Therein lies your perception of risk issue, too. A car can mow down a bus queue. A chop saw is likely only to take off one person's fingers

 

[Hood]

Therein lies your perception of risk issue, too. A car can mow down a bus queue. A chop saw is likely only to take off one person's fingers

Depends on the person using the saw.
An example. I once knew of a guy using a finning machine, he chopped the tip of his finger off. His workmate said how the *&!@ did you manage that and the guy said just like this and proceeded to chop another off.

 

[Parm]

Therein lies your perception of risk issue, too. A car can mow down a bus queue. A chop saw is likely only to take off one person's fingers

If thats your argument then its probably best to start walking everywhere, will also keep the eco mentalists happy

 

[Parm]

Therein lies your perception of risk issue, too. A car can mow down a bus queue. A chop saw is likely only to take off one person's fingers

An airplane can fall out of the sky. Ban all aircraft

 

[Bullet2012]

Ban leaves
look at the rail disruption they cause !

 

[Bullet2012]

An airplane can fall out of the sky. Ban all aircraft

Not the planes fault, ban air it’s obviously dangerous

 

[Morrisman]

For those who say how dangerous they are because you have to take your eyes off the road, next time you go for a drive make a conscious effort to note every time you do take your eyes off the road, you’ll be very surprised.

On longish 30 or 40 roads I click my cruise control on, so my eyes aren't up and down checking the speedo every so often, and I won't have a run in with the people who use the main road for a car park, or rather the people who have to try and get out of side streets and driveways past them.

Cruise control is just a couple of buttons on the steering wheel.

Before I ever had one I thought Cruise Control was a daft dangerous idea, but then I used one and thought it was brilliant. Especially on the motorway, set it to 70 and relax, and pay full attention to the 'mid lane morons', and 'fast lane f***wits'.

 

[Parm]

Ban leaves
look at the rail disruption they cause !

Ban water too, people drown in it

 

[Bullet2012]

Ban water too, people drown in it

Definitely, and fish poop in it.

 

[mike os]

And oxygen... every person who comes into contact with it dies

 

[Bullet2012]

If we ban breathing then nobody will die of inhaling nasty stuff.