Morning TV on my MFD during commute to work

You're way off-base regarding piloting an aircraft. Commercial aircraft have a device called a Traffic Collision Avoidance System which alerts the pilots to the presence of aircraft nearby. This mitigator is in addition to the flight planning in which aircraft file their planned course in order to deconflict with the planned courses of other aircraft.

Plus, commercial aircraft have two pilots to handle the instrumentation and fly. Plus they're generally flying on autopilot so they've got their full attention to dedicate to monitoring the instruments rather than actually having to control the vehicle.

 

OK, lets please give the OP his thread back. I created a thread and poll for watching live TV (or multitasking) while driving in FHOP. Here is the link: http://priuschat.com/forums/freds-h...ality-morality-watching-tv-while-driving.html

 

You knew when you posted your question that you would get posts against driving with TV, despite your disclaimer. The evidence is out there and you know it. This is *not* a hijack of your thread, just comments on your original post and foolishness. Done.

 

This thread topic is very similar to the "Putting Volvo seats in a Prius" thread. Chris already has enough legitimate comments like this one in the thread so I think he gets the point and similar comments aren't going to change his mind. If you want to discuss it please go to http://priuschat.com/forums/freds-h...ity-watching-tv-while-driving.html#post632724

I agree with most everything said so far, but now I just want to see the results of what Chris is going to do anyway.

 

Ah yes. "How To" posts on how to illegally modify your vehicle (depending on jurisdiction) to at least annoy people (you were the fellow with the subwoofer, right?), or possibly kill them (story-/news-based content on the MFD, vs "glass cockpit" use of MFD to display instrumentation or maps.)

But as I pointed out in Jack's thread, you obviously believe that your entitlement is more important than others' safety. I only hope to be wrong about the consequences of that belief.

As for sources...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/business/12distract.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
New hazard: Driving while wired - USATODAY.com
CTV.ca | In-car DVD players distract motorists: experts

 

Not really.

If you crash with your Volvo seats installed (sans air bags) - only YOU may get hurt. When (and I do me when) you crash because you are watching TV instead of taking the responsibility of driving seriously, innocent people get killed.

That's a very BIG difference.

... Brad

 

You know I did not get any of this crap when I started my thread on my in car PC project. Most of the posts on my thread were helpful. Since its an in car computer I can do just about everything with it. Watch TV, movies, videos, listen to music, play games, surf the web, even reply to posts on priuschat and a lot more while driving. So why do people want to fill this thread with crap instead of helping this guy? We are over 100 posts so far and I can count the number of helpful posts on one hand.

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To actually try to help chrisspaulding here is what I suggest.

Take your question over to MP3Car.com - Your source for mobile computing solutions! - Home

They might be a little more helpful in you quest to get TV in your car as they have more experience with all kinds of hardware. Just don't mention you want to watch while you drive and you should be OK over there.

 

Another way is to get one of the DTV converter boxes. They have A/V outputs that will connect directly to the lockpick video in and you will still have a picture after the anolog channels die next year....

Les ---

 

A quick and dirty way of doing this is to get an inverter and an old VCR. Most VCRs have a built in tuner and video out. I did this once when some friends and I went on a cross country trip in my old car. We even had a Playstation hooked up. Made the time seem to pass a lot faster. However you probably won't want to drive around all the time with a VCR in the back seat.

If you're willing to spend a little bit more money several manufactures make an automotive tv tuner. My old car had a Sony head unit that I hooked up to a Sony tv tuner. If you go with a setup like you could mount the Sony headunit in the pocket below the existing radio. Then tuner was an external module that had RCA outputs. You could feed those into the Prius audio system. The Sony head unit's only function would be to control the tuner.

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It probably would be easier just to add something like these:
TV Turners -

 

I think I saw chris in the legal/moral thread (probably generated based on his crazy idea but for all those who think this is a great idea, regardless of the morality (safety for others but many may not give a crap because they are much better drivers than most) b11101100 (btw, shocked he's giving suggesting for accomplishing this moronic idea) posted this:

 

DTV in a moving car is going to be a big challenge since the 8VSB modulation used by ATSC works poorly for mobile receivers. COFDM is the modulation you'd want to use for a mobile DTV receiver, but since ATSC was more concerned with stationary receivers, we got 8VSB in the USA.

 

Not trying to hijack anything, but as a lawyer, I feel compelled to say this: PriusChat is a great resource, but it cannot discuss anything relating to a Prius. For example, you could not have threads about how great stealth mode is for running people over. I feel the moderators are making a big mistake by allowing discussion of illegal activities that could also further lead to large civil lawsuits.

 

I think the better solution is to just do away with all the lawyers. :bounce: