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> visible directions while cycling would be amazing, when it's unsafe to glance at your phone > A heads-up display in your car should be safer too than looking

> visible directions while cycling would be amazing, when it's unsafe to glance at your phone > A heads-up display in your car should be safer too than looking down at the screen The HUD in a car can't play YouTube. If you only use your glasses to show directions, that's great, but that's not the issue. Distracted drivers and riders is. The actual, safe thing to do when you don't know which streets are which, or where you need to go, is to pull over to check, whether you're in a car or on a bike. > A vastly larger screen where you don't have to crane your neck down to read the news? The size part could be nice (though hands-free web navigation is a pain), but why do you have to crane your neck? You can lift your phone screen up to eye-level.

crazygringo 2y ago
> The HUD in a car can't play YouTube. It would be easy enough for safety regulations to limit permitted AR content when a person is driving. In fact, I'd be surprised if governments didn't -- I mean, the device manufacturers themselves would probably do it first. If someone died or killed someone) because they were watching YouTube while driving, can you imagine the public outcry and corporate brand damage? > If you only use your glasses to show directions, that's great, but that's not the issue. No, that's exactly the issue. Using glasses for their benefits. That's the part you seem to be ignoring. > is to pull over to check That's wildly unrealistic, not to mention full of its own safety problems. Where I live, there's literally nowhere to pull over -- there are lanes for driving and street parking. Period. And are you really going to be fulling to a full stop every five blocks or something? > You can lift your phone screen up to eye-level. Have you tried that? Do you realize the amount of shoulder fatigue that produces, and the resulting muscle tension that can produce long-term? Good luck holding your phone at eye level for 20 minutes. Perhaps you should try it before suggesting it.

crazygringo 2y ago

> The HUD in a car can't play YouTube. It would be easy enough for safety regulations to limit permitted AR content when a person is driving. In fact, I'd be surprised if governments didn't -- I mean, the device manufacturers themselves would probably do it first. If someone died or killed someone) because they were watching YouTube while driving, can you imagine the public outcry and corporate brand damage? > If you only use your glasses to show directions, that's great, but that's not the issue. No, that's exactly the issue. Using glasses for their benefits. That's the part you seem to be ignoring. > is to pull over to check That's wildly unrealistic, not to mention full of its own safety problems. Where I live, there's literally nowhere to pull over -- there are lanes for driving and street parking. Period. And are you really going to be fulling to a full stop every five blocks or something? > You can lift your phone screen up to eye-level. Have you tried that? Do you realize the amount of shoulder fatigue that produces, and the resulting muscle tension that can produce long-term? Good luck holding your phone at eye level for 20 minutes. Perhaps you should try it before suggesting it.