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Example from NYC: my iPhone used to constantly give me nag messages to turn on “driving mode” when in my car. I don’t have a car; it assumed I was driving while I was actually on the subway. Apparently, Californians think if you are moving a certain speed, you must be driving.

Luckily, that has been fixed.

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I remember that, it was really annoying.

A prime example of arrogant engineering - they were wrong both about what was going on, and for writing dickish software.

Don't write nagware. Not only are you not as smart as you think you are, software is still very, very stupid and the world is much bigger than you think, even when you think you are taking that in to account.

I really doubt that had anything to do with arrogance or thinking they were smart. They knew that everyone would just turn that annoying "feature" off, but presumably some lawyer thought it was a good idea to ensure people didn't blame car crashes on Apple, particularly in a court of law.

e.g.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-blamed-for-accident-sued-by-...

I used to get that in Sweden when riding a bicycle.

Not to mention that maps at that point (and still) doesn't understand cycling directions. It could often steal focus from google maps. Very annoying and I nearly forgot about it until you mentioned it here.

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