Crashes will be prevented, but the lawyer in me says, 'My God, why did it take so long?' " said Joel Feldman, the co-founder of the nonprofit End Distracted Driving, one of the groups that urged Snapchat to remove the speed filter. The company has also faced lawsuits from the families of those who have been injured or killed in car crashes where drivers were moving at excessive speeds, allegedly to score bragging rights on the app.Ĭritics of the speed filter welcomed the news, while also questioning the delay. Since then, Snap has defended the feature in the face of warnings from safety advocates who have argued that it encourages reckless driving. The move is a dramatic reversal for Snap, Inc., which introduced the feature in 2013. The maker of the Snapchat app is eliminating a feature known as the "speed filter" that lets users capture how fast they are moving and share it with friends, NPR has learned. Snap told NPR that it is eliminating the tool. An iPhone screengrab of Snapchat's speed filter, which allows users to record and share how fast they are moving.
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