Call me a millennial luddite, but I would never be interested in shopping with my car dashboard. I can’t think of a single scenario.
“Where is a gas station” perhaps, but that’s not really shopping so much as geolocation for a nearby business– and I don’t want the “sponsored” result I want the actual closest gas station regardless of whether they paid some ad agency to get a higher listing on searches from Ford cars.
Call me old fashioned, but when I am behind the wheel I am driving. I’m not taking selfies, using my cell phone which I stow away in the center glove box before leaving the parking lot, and I’m sure not browsing the internet or shopping with my car. Two hands on the wheel, two eyes on the road and full attention being given to what is actually happening on the road. The fact that I’m apparently in the small minority of drivers is TERRIFYING. It’s almost like car manufacturers, advertisers, tech companies and drivers forget that we’re driving high speed missiles capable of causing great bodily injury and property damage.
Excite, I am afraid the new generation is married to their technology and they have to be next to their cell or ipad 24/7. I think their brain is completely in arrest unless they have that technology at their beck and call. Honda is advertising texting with their new models. Hello! This is going far beyond GPS now and as the article notes, people using their cars to shop etc present a rich target.
I think they are beginning to put in these new shopping features because they are preparing for the future of automobiles: the driverless car.
Ford and GM see the strong trend towards driverless technology. I give it two decades before the majority of cars on the road are fully autonomous.
This begs the question, what are people going to do now that they no longer need to be in control and behind the wheel? Shopping is of course the very first thing they think of, and car companies are starting to put that infrastructure in place now so that they can be ahead of the game when driverless cars start to become the dominant means of transportation.
I think they should take a step back, stop worrying about putting new products out and spend the next ten years or so beefing up their security protocols so that the average 16 yr old can’t hack into their existing systems.
Could we at least get that lowest common denominator for hackers to a Bachelor or Master degree level?
We are all in the ‘new’ sharing world and nobody would ever stoop to doing bad stuff to you. At least that is what Facebook and all of the other sites would have you believe.
Then you start getting targeted ads from sponsors inside Facebook app (Farmville anyone?). Also now you will get customized search results and ads based on the conversations you have when in the room with your new laptop computer using Windows 10 or based on what the laptop camera see you doing.
But 1984 is just some old musty story that know one ever thinks will come to pass, after all, everyone is always so nice in our sharing bubble and world.
Give me a healthy dose of skepticism to go along with the the morning coffee I just ordered off the new dashboard app in the car.
Samsung was producing a smart TV that had a camera on it to follow you around the house. Can we say Big Brother is watching? Progressive wants their customers to put in Snapshot so they can track you at all times, monitor your driving habits and give you a rate increase if you are driving in the wee hours or have several starts and stops they don’t like. Allstate wants to sell your personal information to vendors so they can bombard you with emails. Welcome to the brave new world.
so the Samsung TV in my living room follows me around the house, including upstairs where there is no TV at all? that is scary. how does the TV monitor me in rooms where there isn’t a TV, agent?
“…follows me around the house, including upstairs where there is no TV at all?”
Don’t be ridiculous. Of course it can’t follow you upstairs — However, because of the “internet of things” the TV does gossip about you with the radio and the dishwasher after you’ve left.
I knew it! Thanks nomesaneman. I keep giving my dishwasher the stink eye thinking it’s got it out for me, but I never really knew for sure. Guess it’s not safe to take off my tin-foil hat when I enter my home after all!
Call me a millennial luddite, but I would never be interested in shopping with my car dashboard. I can’t think of a single scenario.
“Where is a gas station” perhaps, but that’s not really shopping so much as geolocation for a nearby business– and I don’t want the “sponsored” result I want the actual closest gas station regardless of whether they paid some ad agency to get a higher listing on searches from Ford cars.
Call me old fashioned, but when I am behind the wheel I am driving. I’m not taking selfies, using my cell phone which I stow away in the center glove box before leaving the parking lot, and I’m sure not browsing the internet or shopping with my car. Two hands on the wheel, two eyes on the road and full attention being given to what is actually happening on the road. The fact that I’m apparently in the small minority of drivers is TERRIFYING. It’s almost like car manufacturers, advertisers, tech companies and drivers forget that we’re driving high speed missiles capable of causing great bodily injury and property damage.
Am I just crazy, or what’s the deal?
Excite, I am afraid the new generation is married to their technology and they have to be next to their cell or ipad 24/7. I think their brain is completely in arrest unless they have that technology at their beck and call. Honda is advertising texting with their new models. Hello! This is going far beyond GPS now and as the article notes, people using their cars to shop etc present a rich target.
Agent – while I agree texting and driving in ANY way, shape, or form is very dangerous, which would you prefer:
Option 1: no in-car technology so people will have to hold and look at their phone to read & reply to texts, or
Option 2: have a vehicle read the text message out loud and let the driver reply with one of ten pre-set responses?
Obviously option 3 (no texting at all, ever) is ideal, but barring that, which of the two scenarios above would you rather see?
I think they are beginning to put in these new shopping features because they are preparing for the future of automobiles: the driverless car.
Ford and GM see the strong trend towards driverless technology. I give it two decades before the majority of cars on the road are fully autonomous.
This begs the question, what are people going to do now that they no longer need to be in control and behind the wheel? Shopping is of course the very first thing they think of, and car companies are starting to put that infrastructure in place now so that they can be ahead of the game when driverless cars start to become the dominant means of transportation.
I think they should take a step back, stop worrying about putting new products out and spend the next ten years or so beefing up their security protocols so that the average 16 yr old can’t hack into their existing systems.
Could we at least get that lowest common denominator for hackers to a Bachelor or Master degree level?
Gives new meaning to the job title “hackney”
We are all in the ‘new’ sharing world and nobody would ever stoop to doing bad stuff to you. At least that is what Facebook and all of the other sites would have you believe.
Then you start getting targeted ads from sponsors inside Facebook app (Farmville anyone?). Also now you will get customized search results and ads based on the conversations you have when in the room with your new laptop computer using Windows 10 or based on what the laptop camera see you doing.
But 1984 is just some old musty story that know one ever thinks will come to pass, after all, everyone is always so nice in our sharing bubble and world.
Give me a healthy dose of skepticism to go along with the the morning coffee I just ordered off the new dashboard app in the car.
Samsung was producing a smart TV that had a camera on it to follow you around the house. Can we say Big Brother is watching? Progressive wants their customers to put in Snapshot so they can track you at all times, monitor your driving habits and give you a rate increase if you are driving in the wee hours or have several starts and stops they don’t like. Allstate wants to sell your personal information to vendors so they can bombard you with emails. Welcome to the brave new world.
so the Samsung TV in my living room follows me around the house, including upstairs where there is no TV at all? that is scary. how does the TV monitor me in rooms where there isn’t a TV, agent?
“…follows me around the house, including upstairs where there is no TV at all?”
Don’t be ridiculous. Of course it can’t follow you upstairs — However, because of the “internet of things” the TV does gossip about you with the radio and the dishwasher after you’ve left.
I knew it! Thanks nomesaneman. I keep giving my dishwasher the stink eye thinking it’s got it out for me, but I never really knew for sure. Guess it’s not safe to take off my tin-foil hat when I enter my home after all!