[Army Air Corps]

I guess that Self Control is passé.

[Swordmaker]

California Class Action lawsuit demands halt to all iPhone sales in state until Apple implements means to prevent texting while iPhones are in motion to prevent texting while driving. This ignores passenger texting, texting while riding on trains, busses, planes, etc. Not very well thought out suit. It blames the device for misbehavior of the drivers. — PING!

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[rlmorel]

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.

[Darksheare]

Just as soon as a “pull head out of backside” app is installed in users regardless of platform who text and drive.

[Swordmaker]

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.

[Still Thinking]

The lawsuit alleges that Apple puts profit before consumer safety. According to the filing, the company has had the technology to prevent texting and driving since 2008

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!"

[Still Thinking]

And what about all the people on public transportation who won’t be able to text? “Women and minorities most affected”!

[Nifster]

A sane judge would throw this out. A sane judge would recuse himself. But this is California

[moovova]

““Legislating against drivers will unfortunately not solve the problem. “

Start confiscating and crushing the offender’s car...they’ll stop texting while driving.

[mouser]

I would think this means GPS cannot be turned off so police can track you without you knowing it

sounds like a plan

[BobL]

Easy enough problem to solve. If you’re moving more than, say, 10 MPH, you charge 25 cents for each text sent or received.

Pass it as a federal tax and use the money to build the wall.

[meyer]

Self-driving cars will eliminate this problem.

[itsahoot]

Big Lawsuit here. No warning
to remove before Driving.