Comments on: And When Pigs Can Fly, Multi-Tasking Will Be Safer Than Driving

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:10:36 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about the car companies. They were never held accountable for giant SUVs with outrageous bumper heights… eventually they were required to lower the bumper heights but they didn’t have to lower the frames, so the bumpers are cantilevered down and in accidents they fold back up and the frame comes right into the passenger compartment of any car they hit. Car companies are a wonderful example of huge companies with multiple interests- big money and labor unions both want them to be healthy so they have many ways to extract political rent.

By: Bob Gelber

Bob Gelber — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:56:33 +0000

But wait there’s more … if it wasn’t so serious an issue there is a huge vein of humor to explore. I didn’t bother to mention it, but Sync is powered by Microsoft.

“MyFord Touch interface and graphics are powered by the next generation of Ford SYNC®, built on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Auto platform.”

Remember all those jokes about what the world would be like if Microsoft built cars? Go ahead and Google “if Microsoft built cars” and sit back with a cup of coffee.

Personally, I’m waiting for The Onion to pick it up.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:02:55 +0000

Good post. I have often wondered what would happen to the auto industry if they were help accountable for the carnage they have caused over the past century from making unsafe cars when making safe ones would have been just as easy. I know of no other industry that has been allowed to kill and cripple as many people with their product as the auto industry. (Well okay, maybe the tobacco industry.)

By: Cyndi Davis

Cyndi Davis — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:04:50 +0000

Bob, great post. Our ERGOLAB team of Occupational Safety & Health pros agree. (our post from 1.08.10 – http://bit.ly/ERGOLABFord) Thanks for sharing the video, good stuff.