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GM Tests Voice-Activated Facebook Updates
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Voice Commands to Update Facebook While Driving: Bad Idea?

It's fair to say you'd have a hard time finding someone who agrees texting while driving is a safe practice but is using voice functionality any safer?
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It's fair to say you'd have a hard time finding someone who agrees texting while driving is a safe practice but is using voice functionality any safer? According to GM, it is; the car manufacturer is testing functionality for voice-activated Facebook updates that drivers can make directly from their cars. The technology, which is part of GM's OnStar system, would also read Facebook and text messages aloud and allow drivers to select one of four preset messages from different buttons on the steering wheel.

Am I the only one who thinks this is just as dangerous as texting while driving? Hear more of my thoughts and share your own after the break.

GM and Segway Teaming Up to Make Cars
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Daily Tech: GM and Segway Making Cars For Dorks

GM and Segway are teaming up to make a few geeky cars — Dvice The crazy things cities will do for Google Fiber — Urlesque This season's must-have LEGO sets — Gizmodo LiveNation battling ticket scalpers with digital wristbands — Switched Take a look at Sony's sleek projection alarm clock — Unplggd This cup grows a sleeve when you fill it with a hot beverage — Oh Gizmo!
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GM Testing New Augmented Reality HUD Display
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GM's Augmented Reality Head-Up Display: Love It or Leave It?

Cars going geeky isn't a new trend, but GM is paving the way for the new wave of augmented reality technology to be used for safety instead of entertainment.
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Cars going geeky isn't a new trend, but GM is paving the way for the new wave of augmented reality technology to be used for safety instead of entertainment. Its new augmented reality Head-Up Display (HUD) — which is being tested now — will allow drivers in less-than-stellar driving conditions to see the outlines of the road right on their windshields.

Say you're driving in bad fog and can't see 10 feet in front of you — your car's infrared cameras and sensors will "read" the road, then project a virtual outline of the lanes on your windshield so you can see the upcoming turns and curves. I like the idea, but what if the sensors and cameras give faulty information? I see the potential, but I'm not so sure I'd trust anything but my eyes while I'm on the road. What do you think?

Should Congress Bail Out the Automakers?
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Should Congress Bail Out the Automakers?

If Michigan-bred Mitt Romney doesn't think Congress should bailout the auto industry, then the plan to save Detroit might need a set of jumper cables.
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If Michigan-bred Mitt Romney doesn't think Congress should bailout the auto industry, then the plan to save Detroit might need a set of jumper cables. Mitt wrote today:

Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor, and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority, and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

But not everyone agrees with Mitt's persuasive case. In an attempt to persuade Congress that it must act, the big-three automakers may have given themselves a flat tire. Yesterday, the CEOs of GM, Ford, and Chrysler flew into Washington on private jets (which cost about $36 million each) so they could make in-person appeals for $25 billion of taxpayer money. Looks like first-class wouldn't suit the first-class beggars.

For more on how much the companies spend on private jets, and for some arguments in support of a bailout, read more

Would You Buy Genetically Modified Food?
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Would You Buy Genetically Modified Food?

A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that 53 percent of Americans won't buy food that has been genetically modified.
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A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that 53 percent of Americans won't buy food that has been genetically modified. I can see where folks would be concerned, and wondered what you thought? Would you purchase food that had been genetically modified? Or are you a food purist at heart?

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