| It seems that touch screen technology is upon us now | | | | the driver to touch the screen and control functions by |
| more than ever and is not likely to end any time soon. | | | | touch. Of course there are several disclaimers |
| With the Apple iphone on everyone’s wish list in | | | | addressing the owner and operator of the vehicle to |
| 2007 to touch screen computer screens, grocery | | | | only use the buttons while not driving, bringing up issues |
| store check outs, banks and even the postal delivery | | | | of accidents- drivers playing around with controls while |
| service asking you to kindly sign the touch screen. | | | | they are suppose to be driving. |
| What is the latest in touch screen technology? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Other smart function of these little computers is how |
| Touch screens have found their way into cars. The | | | | they are connected. If it looks like several cars with |
| GPS system- once seemed to signify a high tech | | | | computers inside them are converging in one area |
| gadget in automobiles is becoming a standard. Now, | | | | over another, the computer may suggest going a |
| computers in cars which include GPS systems offer | | | | different direction in order to avoid traffic congestion. |
| more than just an interactive compass. Computers | | | | Â |
| being built for the next year’s model cars will | | | | Who knows where we will find touch screen |
| replace some of the current buttons we have all come | | | | technology next. We went from having a computer |
| accustomed to. Soon, more small screens built in as | | | | mouse with touch pad technology similar to using a |
| part of the dashboard or just to the right of the | | | | touch screen to laptops with their own touch pad and |
| steering wheel won’t provide the shock factor | | | | now touch screens on computers and other screens |
| they once used to. Starting in 2009, Volkswagen will | | | | that let us move things around using strictly our |
| be installing computers in all of their new cars, whether | | | | fingertips. Cars are more technical then they have |
| people ask for them or not. These computers will be | | | | ever been and it takes a lot more skill to be an auto |
| replacing the controls for heating, air conditioning and | | | | mechanic then it used to. Even though computers on |
| trip computers all within the car’s own | | | | our dashboards may seem like the cool new feature |
| computer. With no physical keyboard necessary, a | | | | now-perhaps some day we will wonder how we ever |
| touchpad keyboard is built within the screen, allowing | | | | drove a car without them. |