{"id":9556,"date":"2011-10-11T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/apples_siri_announcement_has_great_timing.html"},"modified":"2011-10-11T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:49:21","slug":"apples-siri-announcement-has-great-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/apples-siri-announcement-has-great-timing.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Siri Announcement has Great Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that texting while driving is dangerous but new research shows it may be even more of a concern than researchers previously thought. How bad you ask? Well according to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/headsets.tmcnet.com\/topics\/headsets\/articles\/226299-new-study-reveals-texting-while-driving-highly-dangerous.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> by TMCnet&#8217;s Jamie Epstein you are 11 times more likely to blow a flashing yellow light if you are texting what you had for breakfast. On a side note, this is an even bigger problem for Yours Truly who enjoys a big breakfast with lots of ingredients. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The good news here for Apple &#8211; the company&#8217;s new Siri software should help  bring awareness to speech recognition as a viable alternative to life-threatening e-mail while driving. Of course I have been writing about speech recognition and &#8220;office assistant&#8221; type technology for over a decade &#8211; but like many technologies including MP3 players &#8211; you really need Apple to help bring them to the mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that texting while driving is dangerous but new research shows it may be even more of a concern than researchers previously thought. How bad you ask? Well according to an article by TMCnet&#8217;s Jamie Epstein you are 11 times more likely to blow a flashing yellow light if you are texting what you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}