Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013

• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure what you’re saying, but it sounds like the opposite of what I am, and what’s the opposite of what’s legal in most places.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s illegal to put my phone on the passenger seat??? Please, show me what law is be violated, because that sounds utterly ridiculous.

    But the point I’m making is that you can’t make an assumption on who is driving based on where the phone physically is. I could be a passenger or my phone could be on the passenger seat or just sitting in the center console. I could be a passenger and my driving friend is using my phone for GPS on the dash.

    There are way too many confounding variables to begin making guesses on driver based on phone sensor readings.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      in some parts of the world, it is, yes. And they put up cameras to catch and fine people for it. Ridiculous or not. 🤷‍♂️

      two different things: yes, you can make a plausible determination of a person’s position in a car based on sensors. yes, you can also not have enough data to make that determination.

      It’s absolutely possible with things like usage and gyroscopic sensors. You want to say software could never figure it out, I’ll leave you to it. It’s high school level physics.

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