You are aware thats a game right? Or is this just the biggest woosh moment I've ever had?

That happens everywhere. Burning and cutting the pole are the most common, but my favorite is this one http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/pix/czattack.jpg

It's not that I feel there should be no speed limits/road anarchy, etc. I just think there should be a human there to be able to judge extenuating circumstances.

Just run Win95 in a VM. Easy and simple.

Voice interfaces have their place. For example, I can use speech recognition on my phone to say "Navigate to 123 Main St City State" much faster than I can go to the nav app, tap the search button, and type it in.

However, you don't have to use it. You can still do it all through taps and typing. I'm sure this motion interface will be completely optional too, so just ignore it.

Or by sweating on the phone.

That doesn't mean that someone isn't pushing them into it. No public support and lack of preparation has never stopped politicians. They're just waiting for an opportunity to spin it into a positive thing.

I was under the impression that Android itself is fully open, but drivers are not. So while you could load a free copy of android on your handset, nothing will work without a binary provided by the manufacturer of the component.

Obviously the extent of this will vary from handset to handset, but this can include such things as wi-fi, phone radio, touch sensor, display adapter, and audio. So this is really more about making an open way for Android to work with hardware.

This could all be very wrong though.

Most likely because thats the first way he saw to do it, so thats what he remembers. Forgetting the old way and learning a new way is just too difficult. Also, you're implying he knows how to set the homepage.

The difference is, your grandfather was likely able to understand at least the basics of how a power drill works. But computers, to the general public, are still just a magic box.

Perhaps a better phrasing of the point is though the new interface may technically be better, how much of an improvement is it? What is the cost of learning/teaching the new interface? And remember, just because you can pick it up in under an hour does not mean that Average Joe and Grandma can.

When driving a manual, like the majority of UK cars are, it is.
Also the scary 37% slower figure comes from texting and social networking while driving.

Isn't using your phone in any fashion without a hands-free kit already illegal in the UK? If you must, enforce it.

Education does nothing. Young kids don't really care if what they do is dangerous, in fact, thats often why they do it.

Whenever I go to a new place, and I'm not in a hurry, I do things the old fashioned way like that. It makes it almost like an adventure instead of just a trip. Just continue to do that sort of thing, then when the battery on whatever device goes flat, you can amaze your friends with your superpowers of basic math and a mental map of your surroundings. Its really fun!

Do you really think that its not happening wherever you are too? Like Google, Facebook, etc. Europe isn't spying on you just as much as Google, Facebook, etc. in the US is?

As much as you like to poke fun at us Americans(often rightfully so), we're all in this together.

Have something like the old railroad signal flares. If you can read this, you're too close.

Also if you launch these particles off at FTL speeds they're going to hit something. We'd need something to stop it, maybe a giant wall or something. As a nice bonus it would also freak out first time travelers a bit too.

Because that means regressing back to 7-10 inch screens.