"Take the Next Turn! Turn-by-Turn Navigation."
On a motorcycle, on the highway, looking down on your wrist and reading the directions off a watch is a sure shot way to get killed. What were these designers thinking?
On a motorcycle, on the highway, looking down on your wrist and reading the directions off a watch is a sure shot way to get killed. What were these designers thinking?
I do find it surprising that the pictured model would wear it on the right arm, though, since it's much easier to take your left hand off of the handlebar -- you don't tend to need to use the clutch when cruising on a highway, whereas (unless you have a throttle lock) your right hand will typically stay on the bar.
I do think motorcycle safety is important, but your reaction seems a little overboard to me. Having navigation on a small screen on my wrist seems like a relatively nice perk.
It's not ideal, but it's good enough when you don't have any other options.
It's freakin' awesome to use Google bike nav to get to some place I've never been before.
http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#urbanstyle5
Hopefully he's wearing a single-ear bluetooth or something in the ear you can't see and getting his turn by turn that way, but the inset of a screenshot and the highly visible watch on his wrist to match certainly give an implied bit of poor usage advice.
In any case, more of a failure of the website marketing team than the watch or Android Wear designers, but it is a valid point.