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?
Sincere question -- is your concern looking away from the road, or looking down at your wrist? I take glances out of the direct line of my travel all the time, to check lanes around me, look at the speedometer, tachometer, fuel level, etc.
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.
Exactly. As a little more paranoid motorcycle rider I'd welcome being able to pull over and check my watch - instead of having to pull over, take off my gloves, unzip my jacket, and check my smartphone.
I've used my Moto 360 on my motorcycle, on the highway, wearing it on my right wrist. It's not for use with gauntlet gloves, but really all you need to know is that you need to take the next exit - a wrist buzz and the screen lighting up is an easy way to tell. Mounting your smartphone on the bars/using bluetooth speakers is obviously preferable, but it's better/safer than duct taping your phone to your wrist (which I have also done).
Wouldn't be the worst thing, but you definitely wouldn't wear it on your right wrist (throttle). 99% of the time if you ride one-handed, it's the left hand (clutch) you lift up.
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.
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?