Curbing Distracted Driving

Bodacious apps.

Oh yeah. My friend showed me an App that if you live in a big enough city and have enough people participating then it works.

When you see law enforcement posted up at a spot clocking or checkpointing for DUI's you immediately spot them out on a GPS style map of the area. Plus you can leave a little note as to anything else you wanna add. Anyone with the App can see them and if you get it in time you can avoid them altogether. Don't drink and drive people but during Memorial Day weekend it really comes in handy considering I'd want to avoid them at all costs regardless.

The App name was sadly forgotten. Something catchy but I forget.

Awesome.
I like the response from the first system that tells the sender your driving. There's nothing like ignoring the first text message sound. Only to get more curious as another one comes in

I'd amplify that cell blocker and install it on the outside to make other peoples phones not work.

I could just imagine the text to voice coming in and saying something completely incriminating before any thing can stop it.

"Did you bag that stripper at the club last night?"

Ooops.

Another thing I've discovered is that a CD deck can become distracting while changing songs, stations, or switching CDs out.

Alpine decks are made with all the controls to the left and none on the right. That extra reach for the button your look for is the point where you have to look sometimes to make sure your where you want your fingers too be. It's worse if you connect an iPod to the deck and have to scroll though the thing to find a song. Most newer decks can control the media through the deck but I've always like the Alpines system of doing so.

Always get the bowl rolling for the driver if it comes down to it if you guys catch my drift.

rofl they are texting by voice command on a phone... how ironic

I absolutely agree that there are legitimate addictions to technology products such as smart phones: texting, compulsive e-mail checking, tweeting, etc.

Unfortunately, people who truly have these addictions will probably be least likely to take proactive measures to use these safety gadgets while driving. Does anyone ever successfully "manage" an addiction? In fact, someone I care about very much thins it's okay to text while driving if he is at a red light or on a lightly-travelled road. The point is, if someone is driving and they have to look down to text or read something on their phone, they are NOT looking where they need to, period.

If safety items like locks built into smart phones that prevent drivers from texting or web-browsing in a moving vehicle were standard, that's the only way I can see it working for everyone.