Sync my BlackBerry with my BMW?
// May 27th, 2010 // BlackBerry
Such is the demand from customers to eliminate all remaining aspects of life where it is not possible to receive email messages, BMW and RIM have joined forces to allow BMW drivers to see their inbox from the iDrive panel in their car. It’s a clever use of Bluetooth and you can see a demo of it on the Information Week blog here.
If you’re at all concerned about road safety, fear not as email messages are only displayed in full when the car is stationary. Once you are on the move, you can only see “From” and “Subject” – you then get the email read to you by a computerised voice. I for one think this is still a bit worrying from a road safety perspective – people taking their eyes off the road to look at their sat nav or radio generally do so at moments of their choosing. If you are overtaking on the fast lane of a motorway and, out of the corner of your eye, you see a new email from your boss with “URGENT!!!” as the subject, you may be fatally distracted as you reach for the “read” button.
Would you be happy about your child being given a lift in a car of which the driver was checking their email in this way?
