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We’re somehow down with improving the communication between people, but GM’s little app here basically writes your phone number on the car’s license plate for those who want to know it. And you can’t stop it.
The devilish app is called DiDi Plate and it has been developed by GM’s Chinese subsidiary. It allows drivers to text each other in different circumstances. Like if someone else’s car is blocking your garage door, or your car in a parking lot, or even if you meet a nice girl at a stoplight and you forgot to exchange phone numbers.
But this will be creepy as hell if the company won’t make a feature to control who can text who. In its current phase, you can text the other driver by simply scanning his/her license plate, without the person having to use the app too.
Imagine you did a mistake in traffic at some point and a frustrated a-hole scans your number to stress you out with bad-tongued messages all day long. Of course, you can block that number from your phone, but there are a lot of other methods to send text messages from the internet.
The app will probably be tested in China first, but with that potential amount of evilness it seems to offer, we really hope its developers will include a way to control it. Like the need of an account to allow texting only between the app’s users who can place a discrete sticker on their car to recognize each other. Or simply by not displaying the number and use some sort of ID.
We don't think the app will be pretty legal in its described form and if will catch on to the wrong people, we believe a lot of abused drivers will gang up in front of GM’s office with forks, torches and everything...
But this will be creepy as hell if the company won’t make a feature to control who can text who. In its current phase, you can text the other driver by simply scanning his/her license plate, without the person having to use the app too.
Imagine you did a mistake in traffic at some point and a frustrated a-hole scans your number to stress you out with bad-tongued messages all day long. Of course, you can block that number from your phone, but there are a lot of other methods to send text messages from the internet.
The app will probably be tested in China first, but with that potential amount of evilness it seems to offer, we really hope its developers will include a way to control it. Like the need of an account to allow texting only between the app’s users who can place a discrete sticker on their car to recognize each other. Or simply by not displaying the number and use some sort of ID.
We don't think the app will be pretty legal in its described form and if will catch on to the wrong people, we believe a lot of abused drivers will gang up in front of GM’s office with forks, torches and everything...
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