This, from the New York Times, as linked to by Drudge: the federal government wants to regulate navigation systems in cars, both built-in systems and phone/tablet apps that can be used for navigation. Their voluntary standard is this:
Last year, after negotiations with the industry, the Transportation Department released voluntary guidelines for automakers stipulating that any navigation system should not take more than two seconds for a single interaction, and 12 seconds total.
Not mentioned in this article, but elsewhere I’ve read proposals that these sorts of navigation systems should be required to be rendered inoperable in a moving vehicle.
And once again — we have the sort of narrowly-focused “remediation” of problems that fails to look at any kind of bigger picture. If using a navigation system is “distracted driving,” what about the alternatives? Fumbling with a map isn’t any better. Are we to be resigned to getting lost, or taking a passenger-navigator along on any non-routine driving trip?
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