Probably the best comparison showing the development during the last 20 years. It's amazing, when you think about it! There are no shortcuts in evolution.
1993 vs. 2013
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a good driver /
How come that the second safest country to drive in allow the use of mobile phones while driving, when it’s forbidden in the rest of the world?
The European average fatalities per million inhabitants is 55. Sweden has 31 fatalities, worse is Leetonia with 100 but UK has only 28 fatalities, according to UNECE.
The number one cause of car accidents is not a criminal that drove drunk, sped or ran a red light. Distracted drivers are the top cause of car accidents today. I do agree it’s dangerous to text, managing a crying baby or speeding being late…
However my personal feeling is that drivers take greater risks hiding their phones from the police by keeping them more unseen, rather than drivers who keep their phone in front of them, in the line of action.
My conclusion is that you should not be texting on the phone, eating or picking up your kids toys while driving in heavy traffic... And if we then stick to the statistics, it is safer to teach people to drive properly with a phone, than simply banning phone use while driving, or?
The smartphone is the hub of your digital lifestyle /
Everything will be connected; even things not generally associated with smartphones, like the home thermostat, locks to your house. Event to keep your home plants watered, using a sensor which transmits information on temperature, light and humidity and alerts you when your plants are thirsty.
Smartphones are still connected to the cloud in terms of accessing data and transmitting information, but it seems to me that the smartphone in many ways is becoming the “remote control” of our digital lifestyle.
While making the sensor talking to the smartphones, who talks to the cloud via internet, in this scenario the smartphones are really emerging as the hub of our digital lifestyles.
A good example of this is the role of my smartphone in my car. My smartphone uses bluetooth to connect to my car’s digital display, sound system... which has channels for music, data and voice. When a call comes in to me, the phone serves as the hub that connects to my car’s screen, mic, speakers and tells me who is calling, and even allows me to use the controls on the car's steering wheel to answer the call. And the rest of the time I listen to music via bluetooth on my smartphone connected to Spotify and all this since some years.
And if you are diabetic, one health product that is really interesting is iHealth’s wireless blood glucose meter.
Or an HD version of WiFi camera at home or in your office, a device with 720p video and digital audio capture for monitoring on-the-go and easy setup with your smartphone and all this for $150.
Whirlpool showed at the Las Vegas tech gathering this year its line-up of smart appliances which can send a user a text message when the laundry is done, and more.
I believe we will see over the next two years, thousands of sensor-based products tied to apps on our smartphones. The health-, kitchen-, TV- and car- segment is the beginning of our connected digital lifestyles.
