German researchers have come up with a new way to "keep ur eyes on the road". Touch-screen stearing wheels are said to make driving safer by being able to browse through radio channels and navigate maps with just the touch of your thumbs. They are even thinking about making the touch-screen thin enough to break in an accident to allow an airbag to deploy.
Honestly I think this is a bad idea. First of all a touch-screen stearing wheel sounds like it would be more of a distraction to drivers...not less. If you can navigate maps and browse radio channels wouldn't that take your eyes off the road and on the touch-screen? I think it would also be more dangerous to put an airbag behind it, when that screen breaks and the airbag is coming at your face going that fast would you be likely to get broken pieces of the screen embeded in your body? It just seems really hazardous to me and doesn't really sound like a good idea.
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