Apple bring smartphone functions to car dashboards.

[kids]

http://missoulian.com/business/technology/apple-google-bring-smartphone-functions-to-car-dashboards/...

[Retired-Sarah]

@kids This looks interesting!

What would you like about this?

[kids]

Anything that stops drivers being distracted when driving has got (in theory) to be a good thing.

Having said that I find I rely for instructions from my sat-nav far to much, I wait for it to tell me to stop, I have had a few near misses because of that. :smileysad:

[LeeJS]

@kids I'm all for less driver distractions.

It'll be interesting to see how long we'll have to wait before this is seen in the UK.

[hrym]

Personally, I'd want to see security locked down tighter than anything else on the planet before I had a connected car.  There have been documented hacks - possibly only tested and not malicious so far, but it's only a matter of time*.   On top of that, if it was an even easier way in to the diagnostic system that allows a new/fake key to be created...

* Imagine driving down the motorway and getting a message that says "Give us a grand or we'll disable your brakes"!

[Retired-Laura]

@hrym - Can you even imagine how scary that would be?

I’m sure they will have some pretty robust security in place. :smileyhappy:

[hrym]

You'd hope so, but there have been some very public vulnerabilities recently, both in vehicles and elsewhere. 😱