Pokemon Go Players Can't Drive

DooKey

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Everyone knows distracted driving can cause accidents and researchers at Purdue University estimate that Pokemon Go players have caused million of dollars in damage in vehicular crashes in one Indiana county. They extrapolated these losses to the entire country and estimated that billions of dollars in damages had occurred over the time period studied. Just goes to show too much of a good thing is bad. Don't play and drive. Thanks, cageymaru!

Pokemon Go developer Niantic updated the game in November of 2016 to prevent players from checking into PokeStops at driving speeds—unless, of course, you told the game that you were merely a passenger and not a driver.
 
Pokemon Go developer Niantic updated the game in November of 2016 to prevent players from checking into PokeStops at driving speeds—unless, of course, you told the game that you were merely a passenger and not a driver.

You can't do anything in the game if you are going above 15 mph. Pokemon won't spawn, eggs won't hatch, and trying to spin stops just gets you a "try again later" message.
 
They broke the game.
My kids loved that they could play in our car when we made our weekly trips around town.
I now think both kids deleted it after Niantic imposed these restriction.
It was not easy to play in a rural area.
 
And some of these costs/accidents are caused by people simply driving more since the game causes people to go out more instead of just sitting in front of the TV/Computer.

Wonder how many deaths can be link to pollution created by all the power used for bit coin mining?
 
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