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BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 weeks agoMy friend keeps her phone in a purse, which she puts on the floor of the passenger side whether she is driving or a passenger sitting shotgun. It’s always in the same place. When we take Ubers she usually sits in the middle so she can see, and puts the purse between her feet. Thus her phone is almost never on her person in the car.
I suspect this is true for a lot of women who use purses.
So while it may be true for you that your phone is on you while a passenger, that’s a ton of people it isn’t true for at all, who would then be in the “bad data” camp.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
right, but your friend doesn’t put their purse in back seat if they’re sitting in the front, or visa versa, right?
no person driving should have their phone on them when they’re driving, so it’s an easy spot to exclude. The rest is logic, sensors and probability.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well now you are just moving the goalposts with that “does she put it in the back” nonsense.
Again, her purse is always in the same spot when she’s either driving or the passenger sitting shotgun. How are they going to sort out her data when it’s almost always in the same spot?
And the same for anyone else with that habit. Or who uses the passenger seat to hold their bag.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no moving of goalposts.
the topic is “driver or not”, nothing more.
there are four options to sit in, generally speaking.
you’re saying both people in the front have the same gyro data. That’s fine; my point is she’s not in the back - or if she is, such as in a taxi or uber (which is the original situation) - it’s detectable.
do you remember when phones started automatically remembering where you parked? they did that by knowing a) your speed changing b) the pedometer counting (among other things). My point is: this isn’t as impossible as you and others seem to claim. That’s it.
chocoladisco@feddit.de 3 weeks ago
Why wouldn’t I have my phone on me while driving? Where else would it be?
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
in a phone holder attached to your windscreen or vent.
chocoladisco@feddit.de 3 weeks ago
Why? What do I need a phone for while driving, that shit is distracting.