I would think that someone needs to tell him that he and indeed all drivers should and have to take responsibility for their own actions when behind the wheel of the car. It is not upto a company to make sure that you do not do things that you should not do, such as text and drive etc. If they are made to make sure that texting and driving can not be done then surely the same person suing Apple would then sue them for taking away their free will. Welcome to America...home of getting sued for dumb reasons by dumb idiots!
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Apple Sued for Choosing Not to 'Lock-Out' iPhones Behind the Wheel to Prevent Texting and Driving
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Sadly he'll probably win. The fact that Apple patented such a feature and choose not to implement it is a lawyers dream. I really dislike any company that churns out patent filings, yet never implements them nor have no intention to do so. They're basically no better than the patent trolls, but in reverse.
Of course it has it's flaws. Nothing is perfect. You can't make cell phones illegal just like you can't make alcohol illegal. So you make rules to keep people safe. Of course they don't always work. Thinking there is a solution that solves it perfectly is flawed and reckless.
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I hope that is sarcasm. Available solution for every phone: don't use it while driving.
Of course you could allow emergency calls... And then someone will crash into another car while making a nuisance 911 call.
Until the self-driving cars start texting while driving. And fill up their tanks with methanol.
I trust he is also suing MS, Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Google and all the rest. Oh and also all book publishers as I *could* read a book whilst driving. How about the magazine and newspapers? I see loads of truckers reading papers whilst driving.
Responsibility lies with the driver, no one else.
Responsibility lies with the driver, no one else.
Claims s/he's learning.
Don't know what. maybe how to troll?
I think we should all be required to lock up our smartphones.
In the trunk when driving. Put the passengers in there as well if they have phones.
On the train in the luggage rack and check them at the door of wherever we go.
If we claim that Apple is patenting a laser guided destruction ray (iSS = iStand Still) of iPhones in motion, Samsung will have that out tomorrow.
Android Auto LOCKS out the phone.
CarPlay does not.
I can't believe in 14 pages no one has realized this or known.
You cannot use your phone when using AA and your car (technically you can get out of the lock out but its far more distracting than taking a selfie while driving so its highly unlikely anyone would bother).
CarPlay does not do that. You have full access to your phone.
That AA feature along with the other which is limiting the number of successive touches you can make to 5 are safety features.
The fact Apple doesn't do this and Google do would suggest to me that they have a very STRONG case.
CarPlay does not.
I can't believe in 14 pages no one has realized this or known.
You cannot use your phone when using AA and your car (technically you can get out of the lock out but its far more distracting than taking a selfie while driving so its highly unlikely anyone would bother).
CarPlay does not do that. You have full access to your phone.
That AA feature along with the other which is limiting the number of successive touches you can make to 5 are safety features.
The fact Apple doesn't do this and Google do would suggest to me that they have a very STRONG case.
A few years ago in stop-and-go freeway traffic, I was rear-ended by a woman applying makeup while driving. At the time, I was irritated at her negligence. Of course, I was young and stupid--Ceja has enlightened me that I should assign blame where due.
While I now understand the driver was not to blame, I am unclear whether the makeup company is responsible for not having a feature to prevent its use while driving or whether it is Nissan whose complete disregard for social responsibility led it to omit a safety feature that would prevent operation while applying makeup.
PLEASE, Mr. Ceja, enlighten us who is to blame for the poor women's accident. Perhaps both the makeup company and the auto manufacturer since neither company included in their advertising "please don't apply makeup while driving?"
Wait a minute--the supplier to the makeup company should have never sold its product to a company it knew was selling makeup without sufficient safety features! Now my head just hurts.
Can we please get all the facts?
There are way more guilty companies than meets the eye:
marketing department and personnel who had the idea to create this make up
Company who made the mirror she looked in and the brush company enabling her to even apply the make up is clearly guilty.
Plastic container company
filler and formulator of the make up
chemical supplier of raw make up material
packaging material
trucking companies who truck all components
warehouse incl. personnel and managers where teh make up was stored
sales girl
cashier
paper company supplying th check out tape receipt at retailer
company who made that printer
ribbon for that printer
floor company the consumer walked on
....I am sure I am forgetting somebody.
Looks like eventually we are all guilty!
LOL at this lawsuit! Unless someone is paying for my iPhone and the monthly bill I get then I will use it whenever I damn well want. Any time that it is disabled without my consent is a problem. I'm not saying that I promote texting and driving or that I do it myself but nobody should be deciding whether or not to disable a device that I pay for.
Right now I use Apple Carplay and I think it does a good job of preventing texting by using Siri and voice commands. There are options available to prevent being on the phone while driving but completely disabling it will not fix the problem because it's not the phone. People can and will be distracted by almost anything on the road.
Right now I use Apple Carplay and I think it does a good job of preventing texting by using Siri and voice commands. There are options available to prevent being on the phone while driving but completely disabling it will not fix the problem because it's not the phone. People can and will be distracted by almost anything on the road.
This should NOT be done in any form or fashion for the following reasons:
I heard about this lawsuit and could not believe how petty and ignorant it is. It makes NO sense to hold any device company liable for a person using their device inappropriately. It's on the USER of that device.
If I beat someone to death with my iPhone and the person that died, can their next of kin sue Apple for not having something in place to stop me? See how stupid that is.
- How does the lockout know the device is being used by a driver of a vehicle and not a passenger?
- Passengers would not be able to use their devices
- Kidnapping emergencies - how would the person being kidnapped access their device in a moving vehicle? How would it know they were not a driver?
- People using this on buses or mass transportation - how would the device know NOT to lock you out?
I heard about this lawsuit and could not believe how petty and ignorant it is. It makes NO sense to hold any device company liable for a person using their device inappropriately. It's on the USER of that device.
If I beat someone to death with my iPhone and the person that died, can their next of kin sue Apple for not having something in place to stop me? See how stupid that is.
This a million times over. If getting pulled over for being on your phone while driving means potential jail time and loss of your license, I don't imagine it would take too long before people took it serious from hearing about it being enforced and more so stopped than not.
Someone is looking for a payday. As a shareholder, I hope Apple fights this to their last dollar.
Can someone explain to me how now having a driver lock-out allows Apple to profit? There are reaches, and then there is this nonsense.
Can someone explain to me how now having a driver lock-out allows Apple to profit? There are reaches, and then there is this nonsense.
I think jail time for using your mobile device while driving is a bit extreme. A fine and 3 strikes or something and your license is suspended would be sufficient.
Sad part about all this, infotainment systems in cars these days are not much better than looking at your mobile device while driving. Having tactile buttons is much better than a touch screen you have to look at.
You should be driving while your driving and nothing else to begin with.
He could sue google, Microsoft and apple but not Samsung, Sony and LG or any other phone manufacturers because its more of software implementation than actual hardware itself. But it will be very difficult because not all devices are updatable (iOS or Android).
Don't forget applying makeup and changing the station on your radio.
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They should pass a law about murder too. Too many people are murdered. Laws don't stop people from breaking the law only allows a punishment if you are caught.
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What is this self-control technology you speak of? Sounds like witchcraft to me.
I don't think they have STRONG case because some car manufacturers don't even offer AA or CarPlay in their latest models and I believe not even 20% of vehicle on the road now has them. Also some of the phones (android, Microsoft, blackberrys and apple) are not updatable to implement the software.
Ask your doctor about that. One, if you are on call you do _not_ go out to grab a bite to eat (you may have a microwave nearby; you can take calls on your phone while using the microwave).
The number one rule when something goes wrong is: Don't make it worse. Should that doctor be out in his car when clearly he shouldn't, and there's a phone call, what are the chances it's a call that will save a little boy's/girl's life? (Or an adult's life? Are you trying to make a "think of the children" appeal? Don't you think that's pathetic? ) Chances are really slim. What are the chances if he picks up the phone that he causes an accident that might kill a little boy/girl, or an adult? And maybe kills the doctor as well?
Niantic are way better at being traffic police then software developers.
Better your girlfriend gets into a fatal accident than your girlfriend and you getting into a fatal accident.
Most people would become a danger to themselves and others if they heard that their girlfriend has died while driving a car. It would be much better if you don't find out until you stop driving. And it's totally irrational. Getting bad news, when you can't do anything to fix it, doesn't help you or anyone.
Someone above may have already touched on this, but these types of cases really irk me. If I understood this correctly, then this case is arguing that it's okay to point fingers at others, since there is no need for accountability! Your actions are then apparently due to someone allowing them to happen, not on your free will to act on them. Utter nonsense