Thursday, March 28, 2013

No Google Glassing-and-driving ban likely this year





Will this really become the norm? Even in West Virginia?




(Credit: Noah Zerkin/Twitter With Permission)

Those who were planning road trips in West Virginia were worried.




Especially those who were included in Google's list of eminent and lucky people who would be the explorers of Google's wonderful, breakthrough (and possibly insane) eyeglasses known as Google Glass.




For a Republican legislator had proposed a bill -- after reading just one Technically Incorrect post -- that would ban anyone in the state from wearing Google's glasses and driving.




Gary. G. Howell explained very cogently that he was not against the invention, but that he feared it would be just as distracting as texting. And West Virginia has a significant problem with texting drivers causing accidents.




His bill, though, H.B. 3057, will likely not pass this year.




The House Committee sat today, but progress seemed to head in a direction that might be driven by a Google Glasser-and-driver who had his eyes shut.




Howell told me: "The cov... [Read more]




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