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I see the new Subaru's have this feature where they seem to track your eyes and alert you if you're looking down at your lap. I think that could be a possible s
by meesles 8y ago
I see the new Subaru's have this feature where they seem to track your eyes and alert you if you're looking down at your lap. I think that could be a possible solution, it needs to be in the vehicle since the vehicle is the thing causing the damage, not the mobile device.
I don't like Apple's method: When it senses you moving (which gets triggered for false positives as mentioned), it locks your phone unless you press the big button that says "I'm not driving.". Let's be real, if you're going after the people who actively text and whatever while driving, a single button press is not a real barrier to entry.
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoThe problem for Apple is they don't know you're not a passenger.
- dredmorbius 8y agoLet's make that Apple's problem and not that of the people they kill. If the phone cannot distinguish driver from passenger, shut it off.
- the_pwner224 8y agoA phone is a tool. It is good for tools to discourage hazardous usage, but that doesn't absolve the user of the responsibility to use the tool correctly. Making tools liable for their stupid users is not a good idea.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThe "tool" has created, of itself, a class of lethal risks to uninvolved and nonbeneficiary third parties, through deliberate psychological engineering on the part of the manufacturer, which removing or disabling the "tool" would cure.
- kalleboo 8y agoShould it also shut off for the millions of train passengers?
- dredmorbius 8y agoHow many people will you condemn to die innocently, if there is no means of distinguihing cases? Is there no means to distinguish cases?
- joezydeco 8y agoThe Apple device considers you "in a moving car" when you're connected to the car's bluetooth or CarPlay. Doesn't trigger in a moving vehicle based on location deltas.
- yellow_lead 8y agoI agree but I also wouldn't want to be that engineer that caused a crash because I put something like a captcha there.