Thought Ya'll Might Want to See This...or not

First of all, they are talking about requiring the software to have less than a 2 second interaction rule which makes sense and most of them already follow.

Secondly, to avoid these issues, I just use paper maps and sprawl them along my dashboard. It gets a little dicy when I have to refold them at 70 MPH, but I've got it down now so I can do it in about 10 seconds and find my spot on the map in a safe way. Much better.

Kiwi_too wrote:
This is not a company or government issue. It is an individual use issue. There is already a distracted driving law. And I believe most states have one. You can regulate stupidity to the point that no one can use a cell in a moving car, including nondrivers but that takes away from individual rights.

Hmm, I'll have to check my copy, but I don't think cell phone usage was mentioned as an "inalienable right" in the Declaration of Independence, or even a footnote in the Constitution. :)

My Smart Phone app is no different than the Garmin Street Pilot III I have used in the past, It is not quite as nice as the software (Microsoft Streets & Trips) I use on this laptop when I am driving roads not previously driven.

But here the difference is a bigger screen..

No, I suspect this is either a case of over-reaction by the government (Let's control all HAND HELD stuff) or being pushed by companies such as Tom-Tom, Magellan and Garmin.

This is not a company or government issue. It is an individual use issue. There is already a distracted driving law. And I believe most states have one. You can regulate stupidity to the point that no one can use a cell in a moving car, including nondrivers but that takes away from individual rights.

fj12ryder wrote:
Cell phones don't have to be regulated. All it takes is to have the phone non-functioning when it discovers it is moving more than 15 mph. Easily done, and no government need be involved.

Yeah, yeah I know it will never happen, but there's no reason why it couldn't be done. All it would take is for the cell phone companies to act in a responsible manner. I'm figuring that will happen when I can see those pigs soaring overhead. :)

This is exactly why regulations are required (in general, not in this particular instance) - the unwillingness of people/companies to act in a responsible manner. As you say, the day the companies act out of responsibility rather than greed is the day of porcine aerialists.

Also found it interesting that the throw away phones that where made popular by unscrupulous people and/or people who just were plum tired of the government knowing all their business.....now that they offer smart phones too that all have the same tracking and app technology as the original smart phones. Think THAT was a coincidence and not a planned marketing/gov move?

Cell phones don't have to be regulated. All it takes is to have the phone non-functioning when it discovers it is moving more than 15 mph. Easily done, and no government need be involved.

Yeah, yeah I know it will never happen, but there's no reason why it couldn't be done. All it would take is for the cell phone companies to act in a responsible manner. I'm figuring that will happen when I can see those pigs soaring overhead. :)

My first cell phone I paid only for text and talk no data. Come to find out apps access your computer whether you use them or not.

And most are not listed in the menu to shut them off. AND when I got billed for them and tried to have the charges deleted as we went over each charge and data usage some of them were using as much data as a full time gamer. AND the provider had a very very hard time identifying them as to which app was using the data.

So the "unauthorized access" is ALREADY built in to apps. :R

I just fear the enforcement mechanism. Does that mean an app or piece of code that has to be on all cell phones by law to monitor what goes on? This is something that violates both the Third and Fourth amendments.

I can see this enforcement monitor being commandeered by hackers just to wreak havoc on a wide scale.

I'd be more concerned that they can and will have other access use to apps on a person so-called 'personal' cell phone. God knows what else they will have access to included within these apps if this passes.