I didn’t have to read the details of the incident to know that this lawsuit is absurd. Though I did read it.
It’s as if the victim of a drunk driving accident were suing the alcohol company the assailant was drinking.
Whether an iPhone or Android and regardless of the app, refraining from using a cell phone while driving is common sense, not to mention U.S law.
A cell phone company regardless of the faults with their product can NOT be held responsible for an action by one grown individual who had the conscious choice to refrain.
This individual was not forced to use Facetime during their drive just because there wasn’t a lock against it or a warning notice. That was his own lack of consideration and plain dumbfuckness.
Would Facetime locking down while in a moving vehicle be sensible? Sure. Unfortunately, however, these days there is hardly anything folks can’t get around and passengers would most certainly find a way around this if they were affected.
Nonetheless, such a feature is NOT a lawful responsibility of the company nor is a warning notice as babysitting their customers, the majority of whom are mentally capable of using the product responsibly is not.
The hands-free alternative already exists. It’s called speaker phone. Or blue tooth.
I hope this asshole spends the rest of his life haunted by this.