Driving the Audi A7, the first car with Google Earth onboard.
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Why is this even a feature? Wouldn't it make more sense to just pause the audio and video and black out the screen when the car is in motion?
My wife just bought a VW (which shares a lot of compenentry and design talent with Audi) and it is (IMHO) full of over-thought UI "features" like this that just make the car mysterious to use. A lot of the software UI in particular is just execrable. A ton of fun to drive, though.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just...
I think it would make even more sense to not build so much soon-to-be-obsolete electronic gear into a car that may (mechanically speaking) be viable transportation for decades.
But I guess car makers, like the makers of anything, are more interested in features that help the cars sell rather than features that make the cars easy to live with.
From everything in the description (except the name) it sounds more like Maps... And Maps would be more useful, too.
Here's a neat video of the system in action:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/06/nvidia-and-audi-drive-auto-i...