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Because if someone crashes and dies while fiddling about with the GPS, their family might sue. Two lines of code to prevent a potential slew of multi-million do
by jdietrich 3y ago
Because if someone crashes and dies while fiddling about with the GPS, their family might sue. Two lines of code to prevent a potential slew of multi-million dollar lawsuits is an easy risk-benefit decision for the manufacturer. They don't have to bear the cost of being slightly annoyed by the GPS and they know that customers don't check that sort of thing before they buy.
- amluto 3y agoMaybe a solution is for someone to sue the next time a car is navigating to the wrong place or otherwise misconfigured, there’s a passenger in the car, and the car won’t let the passenger fix it. (Almost every modern car knows when there is a passenger in the front passenger seat — they could feed this knowledge to the infotainment system.)