lawmakers seek to ban google glass from your car !!!!

[codytappen]

Google Glass is going to be banned everywhere. Private offices? Check. Restaurants? Check. Anywhere but a city street? Check. While driving? You bet. Wearing one of these? Expect cabbies to refuse service. Expect restaurants to refuse to serve you. Enjoy not having anyone talking to you candidly ever. People are terrible enough at driving as it is (I know' date=' everyone's a worse driver than you). I personally wouldn't want to where one while I'm driving anyway. I don't see a need, I get myself everywhere and anywhere without something as close to me as Glass. There are so many privacy issues people will have with it as well, as mentioned. It's very, very cool, but the world isn't ready for it yet. The public release target is the end of this year. What does everyone this the price of it will be? People who won the competition to get Google Glass now had the pay $1,500 for it...[/quote']

You're right the world just isn't ready for it yet. I suspect that it will be the privacy resistance (people like Linus), and people who don't want some of the governments practices to be seen who will keep the project/product useless for quite some time. But someday soon, they will give up, and Google, our glorious lord and savior, will finally have more information than that on the public internet.

[Blue Pixel]

I think it should be banned. It's just another distraction which will make you take your eyes off the road, just as texting someone would. There's already enough dopey drivers on the road, we don't need them wearing glasses which could potential stream TV and such.

[Blue Pixel]

why cant you just press a button to turn it off when you dont want to use it

Because if you were talking to someone in the car and you were pulled over you can easily just turn them off and say you weren't using them. It's already been proven that talking on the phone or texting is almost as bad as driving whilst drunk. It's easy to just ban them from being worn whilst driving.

[Jrjy3]

With all the technology that is being programmed into the glass, I'm sure they will find some sort of compromise between functionality and privacy. For example, there could be some sort of signal a WiFi router could emit which makes the glass not able to record or take pictures. It should also be limited to only GPS functionality when driving or something like that.

[Larrivee013]

I'm totally with them. I know it could be awesome for google maps and stuff, but i think it would cause too much trouble. just like cellphones. Sorry dude, but I'm with the lawmakers here.

[matt12046]

I live in Virginia and the Commonwealth is constantly trying to do things like this. Honestly I can see their point though, instead of this thing just sitting in your lap you now have it directly in your line of sight which given the drivers I deal with on a daily basis, is a horrifying prospect.