Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
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#2Blame apps?
No, that's secondary. Blame smartphones.
Perhaps that too is secondary. Blame humans.
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#3The UK, Germany and Austria have banned the use of phones in cars entirely with a whitelist of permitted uses (like passively using it for navigation). I am pretty sure that is something that is happening all over Europe now.
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#4Blame apps? No, that's secondary. Blame smartphones. Perhaps that too is secondary. Blame humans.
So, mass transit.
Re: Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
#5The UK, Germany and Austria have banned the use of phones in cars entirely with a whitelist of permitted uses (like passively using it for navigation). I am pretty sure that is something that is happening all over Europe now.
New Zealand too. If you want to make calls while driving, you have to have a hands-free system. It baffles my mind that there are countries in which people can legally interact with their phone while driving.
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#6Blame apps? No, that's secondary. Blame smartphones. Perhaps that too is secondary. Blame humans.
Humans were around before this development though.
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#7http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/5979/we-need-an-nra-type-lob...
Ill admit, I have not read it yet, I'm reading an ecology paper currently, but I will read it tonight.
Re: Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
#8http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/5979/we-need-an-nra-type-lob... Ill admit, I have not read it yet, I'm reading an ecology paper currently, but I will read it tonight.
Weird. I thought you were currently writing this comment.
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#9Not necessarily just apps, how about IOS: The worst for me is the delay in rendering the bar that occupies the top of the screen when navigation is in use or when tethering is in use. I often look at the screen, then tap, but in between those events the bar appears and receives my click.
It's nearly always inconvenient to get the phone back to the intended screen.
It seems that the delayed appearance of the bar is an intentional UI 'feature' because in all cases the state is known prior to waking the phone.
Re: Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
#10The UK, Germany and Austria have banned the use of phones in cars entirely with a whitelist of permitted uses (like passively using it for navigation). I am pretty sure that is something that is happening all over Europe now.
New Zealand too. If you want to make calls while driving, you have to have a hands-free system. It baffles my mind that there are countries in which people can legally interact with their phone while driving.
I'm surprised people are allowed to use their phones at all; there is a study showing talking on a hands free causes the same attention impairment level as someone under the influence of alcohol.