A Test: Use only Voice Recognition to Control a Car

This week I conduct an experiment:

Automakers are touting, “control the car using just Voice Recognition, so it’s hands on always!”

So for 1 week, try to drive without removing my hands from the steering wheel, ever.

Rely solely on the wheel’s buttons to operate the cabin controls, and infotainment system.

(Conclusion: can’t)

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

Regardless of how you’re operating the infotainment system, your focus and attention are still taken elsewhere. 

Test conducted in a 2015 Chrysler 200.

About pairing my phone to a car for the 1st time – here

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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

Cheersed You with 3 Olives

It was my monthly steak dinner with my BFF, always with martinis. Lots of cackling. Tonight more martinis than usual.

Scrubbed my attic and wrote the news today (Hack a Tesla, get a job – Autonet.ca), but that plus the above means the 5 half-drafted posts I have here, will be published tomorrow.

Probably the most balanced summer I’ve had in 7 years. Good.

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ALS #IceBucketChallenge

I accept my nomination for the ALS #IceBucketChallenge from Didier Marsaud.

I nominate Jim Kenzie, Mark James and Daniel Morad.

6 kg.

I like how this bucket thing has ignited across the internet. Hope everyone who participates also gives their $10, not just the video part.  Here’s the donate link.

Here’s to all ALS sufferers to feel better, because a disease that keeps the mind sharp, while the body decays around it, is the cruelest.

See me flinch? Exactly.

 

 

Taking a Long Weekend

Need to, I have so much house stuff happening, like this.

Basically, I’m turning a 3-season house into a 4-one.

Did this to my kitchen today, and then had the ceiling cut out, so the insulation guys can access everywhere.

And I have _got_ to order furniture.

My love of minimalism is working against me, because it’s now almost a month of still living with nothing, sleeping on an air mattress, hi from my trunk.

Plus one thousand other things I won’t bore you with.  Have a big meeting Friday about an upcoming event I haven’t told you about, and a bunch of security posts I haven’t had required laser-beam focus to write, everything is still normal over at the newspaper, that’s all I know for now the end.

Have a great weekend TTY Monday.