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That sounds like a recipe for causing _more_ accidents as a lot of people are forced to take their eyes off the road to fix their phone; all at the same time.
by RHSeeger 4y ago
That sounds like a recipe for causing _more_ accidents as a lot of people are forced to take their eyes off the road to fix their phone; all at the same time.
- philwelch 4y agoAnd losing their GPS to boot
- ghaff 4y agoAirplane mode AFAIK (and seems to be confirmed online and in my own experience) does not disable GPS.
- bitwize 4y agoAcquiring location via GPS does not require transmitting over the radio, so that alone may well not be affected by airplane mode. However, most map apps download street map info through the network and cache it for unspecified amounts of time, so unless you use OsmAnd or something, you may lose map data and turn-by-turn navigation.
- philwelch 4y agoGPS itself, no, but phones will pick up geolocation data through cell towers and most turn-by-turn directions use data connections. Though I've never driven in airplane mode so I don't know how well it actually works.