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Dounting this is going to stop people being stupid, which is the real problem here. |
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Yes. The problem is with the nut that holds the steering wheel. |
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//the phone is receiving keypad input when the txting program is running//
Since he's still txting and driving, how does it prevent accidents? Is it because he eventually realizes txt isn't functioning? |
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//Since he's still txting and driving, how does it prevent accidents?// |
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This software is a slap on the wrist for the txt-er. When everything is met for the override to run it does just that, runs. The overrride freezes the phone and displays a message that in order to continue typing the user must come to a stop. This software would have to be built-in to chip so that it cannot erased. |
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//Yes. The problem is with the nut that holds the steering wheel.// Yes, Exactly! Thats what the image recognition software detects (whether or not you are DRIVING the car) |
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If you technology that can tell from a small low resolution camera pointed in a random direction within any one of a thousand different models of car whether someone is driving or not, you could make a lot more useful applications than disabling their phone. |
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How 'bout instead of locking out the phone, it locks the car's steering or shuts the engine off. As soon as it detects the texting has stopped, it re-fires the engine immediately or unlocks the steering. Bet that'd get the idiot's attention. The only drawback would be that doing so would put the folks near the idiot at risk as well. But...I bet it would only be once. |
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I reckon your idea is safer. A lot of mobile phones have GPS built into them. The GPS feature could be used to measure speed, and if the speed is over "X" amount, it could lock out texting. That kinda seems more feasible than using the camera. |
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// The GPS feature could be used to measure speed, and if the speed is over "X" amount, it could lock out texting // |
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a) A passenger (car or train)
b) On a boat
c) Parachuting
d) Number 3 of a 4-man bobsleigh team |
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Defeating this idea would be as easy as putting a finger or tape over the camera, no? |
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[Sometimer], et al: You can't just disable a phone because it's in motion - passengers might be making a call. |
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The camera motion software is going to be nearly useless, as most of the time I'm not pointing my phone out the window while driving. |
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I've got it. In the future, when all cars effectively have GPS, they could compare their GPS signals with the phone's GPS signals to see if they're travelling in the same direction, position, time, speed, etc. This only works though if they are aware of eachother's presence and ownership through some massive GPS registration database. |
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Of course, in the future, car phones should negate the usage of cell phones in them anyways. (Right, just like mass transit should negate the use of cars. Oh well.) |
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Oh, I was only suggesting locking out the texting feature. 'Course the GPS speed thingy could also apply to lock out the phone feature unless a hands-free device was connected or something. |
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As far as passengers go, I have no rebuttal... you win that point. 'Cept it wouldn't hurt my feelings that passengers couldn't text or talk without a hands-free device while in motion - but that's just me. |
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[Just trying to picture someone on a bobsled team texting on a run. And failing miserably. But I still like that image.] |
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I'm waiting for the commercial, inevitably appearing during the next winter Olympics. |
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