Monday, September 22, 2014

Radar That Detects Texting

There are plenty of mobile applications out there that help with not texting while driving but it seems like not too many people are using them and it have not been easy to enforce the laws of not texting while driving....until now. There is a radar gun that it being developed that will be able to detect text message radio frequencies that are emitted from the passing cars. Third-party apps for Android and iOS, like DriveScribe and DriveOFF, detect when your car is moving and will block all incoming notifications on your phone. And an activity-reporting app called Canary can be installed on young drivers’ phones to let parents know when their kids are calling or texting while driving. Of course this can can raise some privacy questions if that mobile applications is not used in the way that it is meant to be used. You might also run across some angry teens but better angry than hurt in an accident while driving. It seems that no matter how many horrific stories there are about people getting into accidents over answering a text, people are still doing it.

4 comments:

  1. I do not think any mobile application will be the answer. It is up to the person to take responsibility.

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  2. I hope to see this technology to take off. There should be more software development on the subject because it is a bigger problem than we think.

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  3. There is some software development that wants to make it safe to text. I really do not think that it possible and a good aim.

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  4. All of the software development in cars is very distracting. Do you really need Facebook in your car as you are driving.

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