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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by bskap on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:18PM (#20663983)
Ok, but why do that for railroad crossings and not any other type of dangerous crossing? Should we have these apps announce every stop sign, traffic light, and uncontrolled intersection you travel through for safety reasons?
Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by Arnt on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:06PM (#20664234)
The list is much longer. You're driving past a kindergarten; watch out for children. You're driving past a school. You're approaching an area with many users logged into Google so watch out for pedestrians. You're crossing a bridge. You're passing a point with an unusually large number of accidents in the past.

If that isn't to become some sort of text-to-speech database dump about the area, there has to be a good theory of the conditions for what's worthwhile. And I sense that the natural conditions are the same as the conditions for putting up warning signs, reducing the speed limit, etc.