Congressional hearing leads to discussion of Pokemon GO safety

The following comes from Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)...

“Why is not the use of Pokémon Go unsafe at any speed? Why isn't that possible (to detect when someone is walking and not driving) and why shouldn't you then just say, anybody who's moving is putting themselves or somebody else at risk, and until we figure out a way to detect the difference between somebody walking, jogging, driving, any speed will in effect deactivate this program?”

Mr. Blumenthal clearly has no idea that Pokemon GO requires walking to play it. If you deactivate the feature, you deactivate the game and its purpose completely. Hopefully this info was made a little more clear to Mr. Blumenthal after his statements. Thanks to Mr_Raccoon for the heads up!