{"id":430,"date":"2014-06-16T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/parking-a-link-common-sense-out-the-window.html"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:40:00","slug":"parking-a-link-common-sense-out-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/parking-a-link-common-sense-out-the-window.html","title":{"rendered":"Parking a link: common sense out the window?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This<\/a>, from the New York Times, as linked to by Drudge: \u00a0the federal government wants to regulate navigation systems in cars, both built-in systems and phone\/tablet apps that can be used for navigation. \u00a0Their voluntary standard is this:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not mentioned in this article, but elsewhere I\u2019ve read proposals that these sorts of navigation systems should be required to be rendered inoperable in a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n

And once again \u2014 we have the sort of narrowly-focused \u201cremediation\u201d of problems that fails to look at any kind of bigger picture. \u00a0If using a navigation system is \u201cdistracted driving,\u201d what about the alternatives? \u00a0Fumbling with a map isn\u2019t any better. \u00a0Are we to be resigned to getting lost, or taking a passenger-navigator along on any non-routine driving trip?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This, from the New York Times, as linked to by Drudge: \u00a0the federal government wants to regulate navigation systems in cars, both built-in systems and phone\/tablet apps that can be used for navigation. \u00a0Their voluntary standard is this: Last year, after negotiations with the industry, the Transportation Department released voluntary guidelines for automakers stipulating that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nParking a link: common sense out the window?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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