Global TV News Interview - Distracted Driving with Google Glass

[0:06] All right, so what do we have here that might distract me? [0:09] So this is wearable technology. [0:11] This is called the Pebble. [0:12] It's been around for a while. [0:14] I'm wearing Samsung Galaxy Neo Gear. [0:20] This you're going to put on, and you're [0:22] able to get text messages, audio messages. [0:27] You can answer your phone from this watch. [0:30] This is pretty cool, and this is out there all the time. [0:33] Right now, this is out there. [0:35] It's been for years. [0:36] This is coming all over the place by the end of the year. [0:40] This, however, is what most people are interested in. [0:43] This is Google Glass. [0:45] Very little glass. [0:47] It's actually a prism within which you can see the display. [0:51] There's a camera coming out, and it reflects through that prism [0:56] a display screen for you. [0:57] So if you put it on, keep it above your eyesight exactly, [1:03] so you don't look into the prism often. [1:05] Only when you want to activate the device, if you look up now, [1:09] can you see it at all? [1:11] I can't see it. [1:12] So touch the sides right here. [1:14] Yep. [1:15] Just touch it like, oh, has it come on yet? [1:18] It's never not yet. [1:24] It has come on. [1:24] Can you read anything? [1:26] Event observations lunch meeting. [1:29] Wayne is actually in the car and can actually send us messages. [1:33] Now, if you didn't want to touch the screen, you could actually nod your head up and down. [1:40] OK glass. [1:42] When you say OK glass, you wake it up, and you can actually take a picture of me right [1:47] now and send it to all your friends. [1:49] There's a button on the side that you would push, or you could use a verbal instruction. [1:55] But we have to calibrate this set of glasses for you. [1:58] And more important than all these fancy things, what we want to do is see when you're driving, [2:03] if we could use some of this technology to avoid a potential collision when you're coming [2:09] up to a roadway you've never been before, and maybe there's a distraction up ahead. [2:13] OK. [2:14] Shall we get in the car? [2:15] Are you ready? [2:16] I'm ready. [2:17] Let's try. [2:18] OK. [2:19] Let's get inside. [4:21] The hint. [4:28] The idea is, if it's divided, using a lot of the cognitive horsepower, you're not as [4:42] fine with the motor skills. [4:44] Decision making is way worse. [4:46] We crunched a whole bunch of them. [4:47] We did. [4:50] We're at a month. [4:52] So the idea is that the information that you received were interesting messages. [4:58] What were some of the questions? [4:59] What color is this car? [5:01] What do you want for dinner? [5:03] So those are important somewhat. [5:04] Not enough to be. [5:09] The message came up and said, up ahead, the lane of block, the vehicle on fire, there's [5:19] explosives. [5:21] Then you would turn off the next exit. [5:23] That would be an appropriate message. [5:25] It could be very important. [5:27] So you're saying that, despite distracting, you're saying that these glasses could be [5:37] technology. [5:38] It's what we do with the technology. [5:40] It's the interface between new technology and new drivers. [5:43] The drivers of Canada is trying to tell everyone, this technology is coming. [5:48] It isn't going away. [5:49] We need to make sure that that interface between new technology and drivers is a smart [5:55] one. [5:57] And so, yes, this technology is very, very useful. [6:01] However, someone better be attention to how it's used in the car. [6:07] New drivers, let alone older folks like me, who have never really used a mouse up until [6:12] a few years ago. [6:13] So, hard to say then, would you recommend using these while driving? [6:19] This is a wonderful toy. [6:21] I would really think twice before you actually take this type of technology on the roadway. [6:27] If you're one of those people who has the number 12 flashing on your VCR at home, you shouldn't [6:33] be taking this technology in the car. [6:35] We require more research. [6:37] And that's what we're doing in collaboration with the U of T and with many other companies. [6:42] That's what New Drivers is doing now. [6:44] We're trying to be that interface between new technology and New Drivers. [6:48] Journey. [6:49] But yet, you also say that these could help you while you're on the road and make you [6:54] safer. [6:55] Why? [6:56] Well, the reality is that technology could be used for good or evil. [6:58] The good could be. [6:59] What if that message that came up was that up ahead, the lane on the right is blocked [7:05] by a burning vehicle, and then you needed to pull over to the side of the road immediately, [7:09] put on your all-way flashers, and we got that message out to the next 10 cars that would [7:14] have piled into one another. [7:16] And that would be a brilliant use of technology, and everyone would say hooray. [7:21] However, if you're reading that you need to have macaroni for dinner tonight, and you [7:30] end up taking your attention away and plow into the vehicle in front, and nine other cars [7:35] hit you, that isn't smart. [7:37] So that interface between new technology and new drivers, that's what Young Drivers of [7:42] Canada is trying to do. [7:43] There's a huge gap there that someone needs to fill. [7:47] I'm just trying to point the way to the future. [7:49] Is this wearable technology stuff? [7:52] It's actually here. [7:54] And by the end of the year, there's going to be thousands of these pieces of technology [8:00] driving across the GTA. [8:01] We've got a lot of different types of technology. [8:02] We've got some people here in the last couple of years, looking at the highcolors of the [8:04] GTA.