As if drivers aren’t already distracted enough…

On the plus side, you get to use your remote with hard buttons rather than touch screen. That should make some here happy. 😉

 

Watching YouTube videos while driving? I guess that beats playing a video game.

 

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This is legal, yet in some states having my cellphone on speakerphone and on my lap is an infraction...

 

OK, so what I meant is to watch videos while parked, not driving. Obviously. One of the main reasons I don't post here much or engage in social media at all is that I don't necessarily get answers but a lot of personal comments. No offense to anyone but I don't want to muddle through all the predictable comments. I was asking if anyone has tried the product that worked with Firestick.

 

Perhaps if this was stated clearly in your 1st post, us naysayers see your intent as opposed to presuming the inevitable; watching while driving.

At one time when cellphones and navigation were introduced, crashes from distracted driving occurred which led to laws against it. Meanwhile, I saw local police driving in patrol vehicles with cellphone stuck to one ear......... Hypocrisy in America. During this time, factory navigation was programmed to disable button/touchscreen operation while driving. Work arounds were discussed and used. Videos from aftermarket manufacturers already allowed this for watching video CDs or gaming. Fast forward to hands free phones bluetoothed to infotainment systems along with navigation on the go with tweaks to allow voice recognition and steering wheel buttons to maintain hands on driving instead of holding a phone for texting, calls, navigation. Improvements in driving safely while using distracting devices. And clips, suction cup mounts to hold phones near eye level, on the dash or under the rear view mirror for heads up driving.

I'm sure there's a way to couple external devices like your idea to watch live or recorded video. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

Fun fact: lots of cars in the Japanese market can receive and watch TV on their infotainment screen.

 

I tried it back when BMW was offering TV functionality in their cars — I think that was about 20 years ago.
It obviously affects your driving concentration. Trying to watch something out of the corner of your eye while also relying on your peripheral vision to monitor the road just isn’t worth it.

 

I can see putting TV functionality in the back seat. But in front of the driver is just plain stupid and irresponsible. What were they thinking? I'm surprised their law departments didn't stop that.