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Capella
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2016-07-17, 08:31

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Originally Posted by Elysium View Post
Some idiot ran into a tree near my hometown.
This was all over the Rochester news and causing most of my work to laugh about it.

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Originally Posted by Brad View Post
I think the developers would do a lot of good to shut off the app if it sees you moving over a reasonable bike speed like 20 MPH. Plenty of apps have speedometers now, and Pokémon is already tracking your GPS coordinates constantly anyway.

I'm looking at Waze as a perfect example of this. When it sees you traveling at a decent pace and you try to do something, it throws up a warning dialog to prevent you from interacting with it, and it asks if you are the passenger. Do that (but be strict about it) and you'll have removed a ton of danger. At least the person will have to be driving slowly to use it, and they'd be less of a hazard to everyone.
Ingress has a speedlock of I think 35mph? Over that and you can't set off XMP pulses to attack or throw mods or capture portals. Since Niantic based so much of Go off of Ingress, I don't see why they can't do the same thing. I sometimes gripe about the Ingress lock when I'm on the bus, but 90% of the time it's going under 30 so I can grab things.

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