The Mercedes-Benz is one luxury vehicle that shows the world you “have arrived” at your station in life, but there is a new feature introduced in the upcoming SL class models that has gained its fair share of detractors – as it enables the driver to update their Facebook status despite being behind the wheel. Mercedes intends for that new system to enable one to update their friends or business associates with their current location as they drive towards a meeting or a working lunch moment, which means there is no more legitimacy in the “I’m pulling up at the building right now!” when you have just left your

carport. While you are not allowed to post up lengthy status updates at the wheel, pressing a button will see an update posted automatically, letting everyone in your Facebook circle know of your current location. Mercedes thinks that that is not a distraction, considering how many other buttons you push in a car each day like the radio, for example. (more…)

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Original post by Edwin Kee