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I guess I don't see the big deal. Am I old (or am I an anarchist)? I guess I drove for close to three decades before cell phones and I seemed to do fine withou
by JKCalhoun 9mo ago
I guess I don't see the big deal. Am I old (or am I an anarchist)?
I guess I drove for close to three decades before cell phones and I seemed to do fine without them. We listened to the radio. So, no, I suppose it doesn't seem crazy to me.
Clearly it would be ideal if it could discriminate—people distracted by their phones—but of course it cannot.
- kyralis 9mo agoIf you had a device that indiscriminately shut down cars around you, because people used to do fine with their horse and buggy, would that be okay? He's imposing upon a common in a way that is taking that from everyone else - and, as noted, in a way that's potentially dangerous.
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- JKCalhoun 9mo agoGiven the popularity of r/fuckcars (as an example) it might be your straw-man argument is not such a reach, ha ha.
- Thrymr 9mo agoThis isn't about whether people should be using cell phones on the road, this is about whether one person can arbitrarily interfere with radio spectrum used for communications in licensed frequencies by thousands of people. Obviously, by federal law, they cannot.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoThere are many other important or essential services that get disrupted by the jammer, like emergency services/911, police, private business communications, general internet data for everyone, etc. There's a very good reason this is illegal and it has nothing to do with keeping people off their phones in their cars.
- latexr 9mo agoAnd in those days you had affordances which no longer exist, such as AA Call Boxes on the side of the road. If you get into an accident today, you are expected to have a phone to call for help. That can literally be the difference between life or death, jamming communications can cause people to die.