California Court Rules Apple Bears No Fault In Fatal FaceTime Car Crash

It isn’t Apple’s responsibility to prevent you from doing dangerous things with your iPhone.

That’s the decision of an appeals court in California this morning in a case related to a man who crashed while driving and apparently making a video call on his iPhone. The ruling puts it much more formally, of course.

In 2014, Garrett Wilhelm was making a FaceTime call while behind the wheel of his vehicle and rear-ended another car at high speed. Tragically, Maria Modisette, who was in the car with Wilhelm, was killed by the crash. The young girl’s family sued Apple because the iPhone didn’t include motion-sensing technology that blocked the use of FaceTime when driving. 


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MDarringer - 12/19/2018 4:08:42 PM

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The irony is that the software to brick a phone for handheld use in a car while driving exists, but we don't deploy it.