Bad App: Imagine someone designing an app that would encourage people to drive fast. One person is in the hospital and will probably recover, but another has serious brain injuries.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Imagine someone designing an app that would encourage people to drive fast. One person is in the hospital and will probably recover, but another has serious brain injuries.

http://jalopnik.com/teen-was-using-snapchats-speed-filter-before-devastatin-1773697929

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jerryc41 wrote:

Imagine someone designing an app that would encourage people to drive fast. One person is in the hospital and will probably recover, but another has serious brain injuries.

http://jalopnik.com/teen-was-using-snapchats-speed-filter-before-devastatin-1773697929

Anyone that would even consider using an APP. like that already suffers brain damage!!!!!!

exakta56 Loc: Orford,New Hampshire

With the urging of lawyers without scruples, the notion that one is not responsible for one's own actions has made the former rich and others even more irresponsible. A sorry state of affairs.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

exakta56 wrote:

With the urging of lawyers without scruples, the notion that one is not responsible for one's own actions has made the former rich and others even more irresponsible. A sorry state of affairs.

"Lawyers Without Scruples" - That sounds like "Doctors Without Borders," only bad.

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

jerryc41 wrote:

Imagine someone designing an app that would encourage people to drive fast. One person is in the hospital and will probably recover, but another has serious brain injuries.

http://jalopnik.com/teen-was-using-snapchats-speed-filter-before-devastatin-1773697929

A quote from the article--
"Snapchat has an obligation under the law not to place dangerous items into the stream of commerce, and they have a responsibility to act reasonably to take steps to eliminate risks associated with their products.

If Snapchat is found guilty, gun manufactures will be shaking in their boots.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Marionsho wrote:

If Snapchat is found guilty, gun manufactures will be shaking in their boots.

I think it would be a big leap from one to the other. The purpose of that app - or filter - is to post how fast you're driving. Going the speed limit would be a non event. If gun makers had an app to let owners post how many people they had shot, that would be a different story. Even if that did happen, I doubt gun makers would suffer any penalties. After all - The Second Amendment.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

jerryc41 wrote:

Imagine someone designing an app that would encourage people to drive fast. One person is in the hospital and will probably recover, but another has serious brain injuries.

http://jalopnik.com/teen-was-using-snapchats-speed-filter-before-devastatin-1773697929

It would seem that this idiotess misused the app for something that it was never intended to be used. That is as bad as saying they should sue Mercedes for designing a car that could be driven at such fast speeds.
--Bob

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

jerryc41 wrote:

I think it would be a big leap from one to the other. The purpose of that app - or filter - is to post how fast you're driving. Going the speed limit would be a non event. If gun makers had an app to let owners post how many people they had shot, that would be a different story. Even if that did happen, I doubt gun makers would suffer any penalties. After all - The Second Amendment.

Thanx Jerry. That makes a LOT of sense. :thumbup: