Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)

Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by redleader9345 on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:04PM (#27480747)

Sounds like Darwin award material. But seriously, those who can't survive the sea change of digital onslaught are eliminated from gene pool. Do the evolution.

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Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by ipython on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:11PM (#27480793)

Except for the innocent drivers and passengers who weren’t playing the game but were involved in a crash anyway…

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Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by foxpurple on Saturday June 12, 2021 @01:31AM (#27481820)

Also the fact that car safety is so advanced now that the Pokémon go driver will most likely live and some random person on the street dies.

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Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by serf on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:24PM (#27480867)

>Do the evolution.

humans adapting evolutionarily to shitty interfaces produced by lack of fore-thought and research sounds like a tech-horror writing prompt.

The lisp-alien comes to mind. Is this the face of perfection?[0]

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Lisplogo...

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Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by june11 on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:48PM (#27481353)

Haha, leave the lisp alien alone, he just wants to enlighten you

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Re:Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while drivin... by shrimp_emoji on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:48PM (#27481014)

Rofl

Sadly, evolution doesn't tend toward perfection -- only toward what reproduces best, like Windows and JavaScript.

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