Posted on 01/18/2017 2:02:20 PM PST by Swordmaker
I guess that Self Control is passé.
I guess that Self Control is passé.
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Seems so as far as driving/texting is concerned.
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Yep. I am 99% against texting and talking on a cell phone while driving, but I think the movement to blame the phone instead of the user is the same as blaming the gun and not the person who fired it.
Just as soon as a “pull head out of backside” app is installed in users regardless of platform who text and drive.
Amazing how this lawsuit conflates all texting while driving incidents to be caused by using iPhones but not by Android phone users. How is that? The fact is that 42,000 accidents in California are attributed to “distracted driving” not just “texting while driving.”
That distracted driving category includes eating, drinking, shaving, putting on make-up, fiddling with the radio and CD, holding a cellular phone and talking, looking at a map, disciplining unruly kids in the backseat, etc., as well as texting.
Really? I'm impressed -- if I were writing that, I'd be stumped about how to figure out if the phone is being used by the driver or by a passenger. And if it's the passenger, and you disable the phone, they're going to be pissed!
And what about that one time somebody gets abducted and the kidnapper forgets to take the victim's cell before tossing them in the trunk, and they die because their phone wouldn't let them call 911? Samsung's new ad will be "I'd be alive if I only had an Android phone!"
And sexting, if you’re Anthony Weiner!
And what about all the people on public transportation who won’t be able to text? “Women and minorities most affected”!
It’s all about nanny-state power.
Screw’em.
A sane judge would throw this out. A sane judge would recuse himself. But this is California
God I hate legal ho’s.
Screw’ em? No way
F**k ‘em.
I agree. I do think people caught texting and driving should lose their licenses for a year, get 90 days in jail for 2nd offense, and permanent revolked license for third offense.
“Amazing how this lawsuit conflates all texting while driving incidents to be caused by using iPhones”
Exactly.
It is a lawsuit simply to poke and harass Apple because they wouldn’t bow to the altar of All Powerful Government and install a back door into all iPhones.
“Legislating against drivers will unfortunately not solve the problem. “
Start confiscating and crushing the offender’s car...they’ll stop texting while driving.
I just passed a woman yesterday—she was weaving and driving 60 in the middle lane—at least 15 mph slower that traffic. I glanced at her to see what the problem was, and lo and behold—an iPad balanced in the center of the steering wheel and an iPhone cradled against her shoulder!
I didn’t see any Apple employees in her car, but obviously someone was forcing the woman into this dangerous behavior.
It isn’t the phone or the car that’s the problem. I think an app to vote drivers off the road would be a good idea.
I would think this means GPS cannot be turned off so police can track you without you knowing it
sounds like a plan
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