Comments on: Chat with other car drivers while driving http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/ to question and improve Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daniel Hofstetter http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Daniel Hofstetter Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:22:39 +0000 http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/#comment-261 @Balaji: Thanks for your comment! What I described in the article wouldn't have helped you in the situation you described, as you only could communicate with the car in front or behind of you. On the other hand it is an interesting idea to have a way to communicate with friends in another car who are in the same region as you are. @Balaji: Thanks for your comment!

What I described in the article wouldn’t have helped you in the situation you described, as you only could communicate with the car in front or behind of you. On the other hand it is an interesting idea to have a way to communicate with friends in another car who are in the same region as you are.

]]> By: Balaji http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Balaji Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:12:14 +0000 http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/#comment-210 It really great thought! to avoid misuse, we should have some kind of pass-key concepts, by which the drivers can interact either through voice or text. [using Blue-tooth technology] [make it visble only to trust friends] i had a personel experience, where by when we friends where travelling in 2 cars, and one of the car was lost on the way and we had to restore to tracing them phsically [no cell sites where active]. if the secure car-to-car communication is established we could have avoided that. It really great thought! to avoid misuse, we should have some kind of pass-key concepts, by which the drivers can interact either through voice or text. [using Blue-tooth technology] [make it visble only to trust friends]

i had a personel experience, where by when we friends where travelling in 2 cars, and one of the car was lost on the way and we had to restore to tracing them phsically [no cell sites where active]. if the secure car-to-car communication is established we could have avoided that.

]]> By: Daniel Hofstetter http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Daniel Hofstetter Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:01:35 +0000 http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/#comment-21 @moeffju: Yes, that's possible, even though I think people know that they are not that anonymous when driving a car due to the clearly visible number plates. @moeffju: Yes, that’s possible, even though I think people know that they are not that anonymous when driving a car due to the clearly visible number plates.

]]> By: moeffju http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-19 moeffju Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:47:54 +0000 http://42dh.com/2007/05/16/chat-with-other-car-drivers-while-driving/#comment-19 I predict that it would be abused very quickly. Cars seem to offer a sense of protection and anonymity that I think can be linked to the perceived anonymity on the internet, and see where *that* got web forums or usenet. First you'd get people just shouting or flooding to annoy others, then the spamming would start. As soon as you make it easy for large groups of people to communicate seemingly anonymously, you'll get what Penny Arcade once so pointedly described as the 'Internet Fuckwad Syndrome'. Compare the hypothetical everyone-can-use-it chat system to e.g. short distance radios, like most truckers or taxi drivers use. They have a sense of community, it's not all too easy to use, and it works. If you allowed just anyone it, quality would likely go down. YMMV. I predict that it would be abused very quickly. Cars seem to offer a sense of protection and anonymity that I think can be linked to the perceived anonymity on the internet, and see where *that* got web forums or usenet. First you’d get people just shouting or flooding to annoy others, then the spamming would start. As soon as you make it easy for large groups of people to communicate seemingly anonymously, you’ll get what Penny Arcade once so pointedly described as the ‘Internet Fuckwad Syndrome’.

Compare the hypothetical everyone-can-use-it chat system to e.g. short distance radios, like most truckers or taxi drivers use. They have a sense of community, it’s not all too easy to use, and it works. If you allowed just anyone it, quality would likely go down.

YMMV.

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