Road to hell being paved with good intentions maybe? Seems odd to me to order people to shelter in place when toxic smoke is an issue (another PG&E special?).

Road to hell being paved with good intentions maybe? Seems odd to me to order people to shelter in place when toxic smoke is an issue (another PG&E special?). The ZoneHaven software seems to be evac management software split into an offering for first responders for planning evacuations, and an offering for the public providing a single place to look things up. From the screenshots, I'm seeing metrics on expected population and # of vehicles. I can only assume there is some dual use concern over the fact that as these datasets can be fused with carrier handset location data, it's possible to implement a geofencing solution with a bit of kitbashing. The previous mention of "a town in a county near Monterey having their Mayor told California Highway Patrol would keep their town's Interstate access cut off on a timescale of months" (no evidence offered or capable of being found on a cursory search, will check CalFIRE as recommended though), but assuming good faith, could be a valid reason for concern. If nothing else, it actually got me searching as to whether anything like that was at all precedented. It's one of those things that I guess you take for granted won't happen, but when you start thinking about it, gives you a shiver. Relevance to article can be inferred the poster finds application of this potential tool in such a hypothetical geofencing manner with no recourse or questioning disquieting. Which I can't necessarily blame them for; my "but no one would do that"/State overreach mental circuits have been getting increasingly Locked Out/Tagged Out over the last decade. The poster just might be kind of bad at communicating context, or over-relying on other people sharing mental context/priors for the meaning to fully come through. Incomplete communication maybe. Lunatic, I think not.