That makes sense now that you mention it, but I hadn't thought of it before.
Somewhere I saw a discussion of a software design (I don't know if anybody's implemented it) that would disable certain functions on a driver's phone, like texting. How would they hit only drivers and not passengers? Relative positions -- if you see a pair or trio or whatever of signals moving down the road, the one in the front left is the driver. But this doesn't handle the case where the driver isn't carrying a phone but a passenger is; GPS just isn't that precise in my experience. So it'd be pretty annoying for the passenger to lose the ability to text someone to say they're running late...
(If GPS is that precise, then why the heck can't mapping apps tell me where exactly I am when I'm trying to navigate an unfamiliar area on foot? In Rome it often couldn't even correctly indicate which direction we were facing -- we'd be at an intersection with no street signs, walk in the direction consistent with the arrow, and after half a block the dot would move and show we'd taken a wrong turn so we'd have to undo it.)
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Date: 2017-07-26 01:29 am (UTC)Somewhere I saw a discussion of a software design (I don't know if anybody's implemented it) that would disable certain functions on a driver's phone, like texting. How would they hit only drivers and not passengers? Relative positions -- if you see a pair or trio or whatever of signals moving down the road, the one in the front left is the driver. But this doesn't handle the case where the driver isn't carrying a phone but a passenger is; GPS just isn't that precise in my experience. So it'd be pretty annoying for the passenger to lose the ability to text someone to say they're running late...
(If GPS is that precise, then why the heck can't mapping apps tell me where exactly I am when I'm trying to navigate an unfamiliar area on foot? In Rome it often couldn't even correctly indicate which direction we were facing -- we'd be at an intersection with no street signs, walk in the direction consistent with the arrow, and after half a block the dot would move and show we'd taken a wrong turn so we'd have to undo it.)