What if you are just a passenger in the car? How will they determine this?
Make you perform a challenge that's possible with two hands but impossible with one. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aMXEOAvfb4
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#55The solution to this is simple: one way or another, except for people whose job it is to drive, we should stop having people drive cars, whether that means public transit, more bike lanes, or self-driving cars or something else.
I do think it's possible to approximately locate a driver's phone, though it will likely work relatively imperfectly. But then consider that driving drunk is also a huge hazard, and yet most people don't have breathalyzers required to start their cars (and yes, this technology does already exist)
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#56I feel like something which is missing from this entire conversation is the idea of building user interfaces which are easier to use while driving. It feels like we are stuck in an era when abstinence was the only teen pregnancy solution which was politically safe to discuss.
A simple example would be a music player where the UI is a full screen block of solid color which recognizes swipe guestures to control playback. There's no reason to look at the phone because there's nothing to look at.
A bit more controversial would be Apple automatically dialing up the accessibility font size boost if the phone is moving faster than 10 mph. We may not be able to prevent people from using their phones while driving, but we can reduce the amount of time required to interact with their phone's UI by using easier-to-acquire font sizes and putting less text on the screen.
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#57The solution to this is simple: one way or another, except for people whose job it is to drive, we should stop having people drive cars, whether that means public transit, more bike lanes, or self-driving cars or something else. I do think it's possible to approximately locate a driver's phone, though it will likely work relatively imperfectly. But then consider that driving drunk is also a huge hazard, and yet most…
It'll take some time to get to that point. Is the proposed driving mode a good stop-gap? I think it could well be.
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#58The solution to this is simple: one way or another, except for people whose job it is to drive, we should stop having people drive cars, whether that means public transit, more bike lanes, or self-driving cars or something else. I do think it's possible to approximately locate a driver's phone, though it will likely work relatively imperfectly. But then consider that driving drunk is also a huge hazard, and yet most…
Man, I'm so tired of the whole self-driving meme
It's years off in most of the world, while more and more sophisticated infotaiment screens that can distract the drivers are ALREADY on the market
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#59I feel like something which is missing from this entire conversation is the idea of building user interfaces which are easier to use while driving. It feels like we are stuck in an era when abstinence was the only teen pregnancy solution which was politically safe to discuss. A simple example would be a music player where the UI is a full screen block of solid color which recognizes swipe guestures to control playbac…
Is the issue really with how people interface with applications, or rather that interacting with applications takes focus away from the road?
A person can be looking at the road with their eyes but not focusing on it (being prepared to respond) at the same time.
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#60The solution to this is simple: one way or another, except for people whose job it is to drive, we should stop having people drive cars, whether that means public transit, more bike lanes, or self-driving cars or something else. I do think it's possible to approximately locate a driver's phone, though it will likely work relatively imperfectly. But then consider that driving drunk is also a huge hazard, and yet most…
It'll take some time to get to that point. Is the proposed driving mode a good stop-gap? I think it could well be.
I don't think it's a good stop-gap for me. I wan't to be able to use my own gps app (OSMand), not retarded Google Maps that has less features than bottomfeeeder gps unit you buy at wallmart
But I can concede that people are sure as fuck going to use facebook on those screens if there was a way to do so -.-