Toyota's GPS App Lets Kids Drive From the Backseat

The ToyToyota "Backseat Driver" app lets kids in the backseat take a virtual drive, linked by GPS to the parent's actual driving route. Along with social capabilities and game-play functions, the technology generates happy-happy, idealized animated representations of the mundane scenery and landmarks gliding past outside. Check out the clip below of a drive through Tokyo. At roughly the 1-minute mark, note the single tree on the approach to the Ferris wheel—not the dozens of leafy representations brought to cartoonish life by the handset display.