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Google starts rolling out "Heads Up" in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking
In November last year, XDA's Mishaal Rahman spotted an upcoming feature, called Heads Up, in a teardown of the Digital Wellbeing app. At the time, we'd learned that the feature would alert users to keep their heads up while walking to avoid any accidents. The feature has now started rolling out to Google Pixel users with the latest Digital Wellbeing beta update.
[...] The setup screen shows the same description: "Watch your step with Heads Up...If you're walking while using your phone, get a reminder to focus on what's around you. Use with caution. Heads Up doesn't replace paying attention." Tapping on the 'Next' button at the bottom of this screen begins the setup process, after which the feature shows a pushes a reminder every time you use your phone while walking.
Also at 9to5Google, Android Police, and The Verge.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Monday April 12 2021, @10:08PM (3 children)
If you are so stupid you will walk into an active intersection while staring at your phone, IMHO, Darwin wins.
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 12 2021, @10:23PM
If people need an app to tell them they've been fucking off on their phone too much, an app written by a company that profits from people fucking off on their phones too much, then their problems start way before they hit the streets. I look upon FitBit and similar types with similar disdain; as the adrenaline rush, weight loss, and relaxing aftermath of exercise aren't enough for the gadget addict who needs blinkenlights and graphs to tell them their workout was a success.
(side note, I don't do that FitBit shit but I found that I always had better results ignoring the calorie tracker on gym equipment. You think you've run your ass off on the treadmill only to discover you're only 200 burnt calories deep in the exercise, a lot more demotivating than ignoring the damn machine and looking at only the final results.)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday April 12 2021, @10:35PM (1 child)
Around one in ten careless Brits has suffered a "walk 'n text" street injury in the past year through collisions with lampposts, bins and other pedestrians.
--https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-525785/Brick-Lane-Britains-Safe-Text-street-padded-lampposts-prevent-mobile-phone-injuries.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0_gmBD-fXk [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_b-hTlo1w [youtube.com]
Damn... I'd rather have my head up watching the girls go by than
losespend my life on a phone--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:45PM
Wow, that's nuts. I wonder if, perhaps those aren't unique incidents? As in, some people are more prone to hit lampposts, etc. than others and thus push the number of accidents up?
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