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Phones don't have to phone home with GPS data and they actually don't since it will ruin battery life even further. Will also fine passengers which is hilarious

Phones don't have to phone home with GPS data and they actually don't since it will ruin battery life even further. Will also fine passengers which is hilarious. Speeding is most often victimless crime so it's not obvious why it is absolute good for me, the citizen.

StavrosK 11y ago
You asked for an example of crimes that would be eliminated with backdoors, and you got one.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  You'd have to legally mandate that people carry a phone at all times otherwise I'd just leave the phone at home and go speeding and/or cripple the GPS unit. Hell if I where inclined I could feed the GPS unit false data showing I was doing 30 in a 30 to deliver food to a nursing home. None of this stuff is workable or desirable.
ixwt 11y ago
>Will also fine passengers which is hilarious. What about using your phone as a key? To turn on your car you have to put your phone into a deactivated mode (like a drive dashboard) that has significantly decreased functionality. I'd bet parents would be rather interested in this (and perhaps car companies). >Speeding is most often victimless crime so it's not obvious why it is absolute good for me... Not always. The stopping distance from 35 mph to 40 mph is a good bit. I haven't found any numbers on 35 mph, but it seems that 30 mph has a stopping distance of ~75 ft, while 40 mph is ~120 ft. If you're going 5 over in a 35 mph zone (which is normally a city) there is an increase in brake time that could potentially put someone at risk of being hit. Is it victimless if you put someone elses well being at risk by being hit by you? Because you wanted to get somewhere slightly faster? Edit: readability
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  N.B.: for better readability, you'll want a blank line (two CRLFs) between your "quoted text" and your reply.

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Phones don't have to phone home with GPS data and they actually don't since it will ruin battery life even further. Will also fine passengers which is hilarious

by guard-of-terra 11y ago

StavrosK 11y ago
You asked for an example of crimes that would be eliminated with backdoors, and you got one.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  You'd have to legally mandate that people carry a phone at all times otherwise I'd just leave the phone at home and go speeding and/or cripple the GPS unit. Hell if I where inclined I could feed the GPS unit false data showing I was doing 30 in a 30 to deliver food to a nursing home. None of this stuff is workable or desirable.
ixwt 11y ago
>Will also fine passengers which is hilarious. What about using your phone as a key? To turn on your car you have to put your phone into a deactivated mode (like a drive dashboard) that has significantly decreased functionality. I'd bet parents would be rather interested in this (and perhaps car companies). >Speeding is most often victimless crime so it's not obvious why it is absolute good for me... Not always. The stopping distance from 35 mph to 40 mph is a good bit. I haven't found any numbers on 35 mph, but it seems that 30 mph has a stopping distance of ~75 ft, while 40 mph is ~120 ft. If you're going 5 over in a 35 mph zone (which is normally a city) there is an increase in brake time that could potentially put someone at risk of being hit. Is it victimless if you put someone elses well being at risk by being hit by you? Because you wanted to get somewhere slightly faster? Edit: readability
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  N.B.: for better readability, you'll want a blank line (two CRLFs) between your "quoted text" and your reply.