• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Why are phones even working in cars? These devices have sophisticated 6 axis sensors, and it is easy to tell if a user is a passenger or a driver. Or just fucking disable them once they are moving at a set speed. The world can survive without phone connectivity for a car ride.

    30,000 a year are slaughtered in the US alone, despite ABS, TC, ESC, various air bags, etc. but the solution is to make them more like tanks without addressing the actual cause of the problem.

    I’m kinda surprised the US lawyer industry hasn’t tried a class action suit.

    • root@lemmy.wtf
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      7 hours ago

      when I need to call emergency services in the back of the crashed van but my phone is locked for 30 minutes because of the crash

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        6 hours ago

        I have a love hate relationship with my husbands car because of this type of “feature”. Love that its a 2012 with no online connectivity or tablet displays of any kind. Hate that i, as the passenger, cant connect a device via bluetooth or change other media related settings if its in drive, only while its in park. Youd think that “feature” would disable when it detects a passenger, but no, i guess the passenger is driving just as much as the driver themselves.