The Feds Want To Make Your Car As Easy As An iPhone - Is That A Good Thing?

Federal regulators nudged the auto industry last week to make vehicles a bit more like Apple iPhones on wheels.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has tentatively embraced voice recognition to reduce driver distraction. Automakers already were working to replace tedious memorized commands with a more conversational approach, popularized by the iPhone, to retrieve such information as a weather report.

Now Ford, General Motors and others are working to make conversational commands easier and more intuitive. But the task is daunting in part because smartphones typically have far more computing power than a car's infotainment unit.

carsarefun - 2/20/2012 3:33:22 PM

+1 Boost

The Feds should concentrate more on "Roads and Bridges".

Leave the car design up to the private sector.

We have way too much government as it is.

CARS ARE FUN

cdoke - 2/20/2012 3:57:46 PM

+1 Boost

Well, given that on occasion when I ask Siri to "send text to Oksana", and she replies "I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by f**k sauna'" I don't hold out much hope.