Captain, We've intercepted a transmission

[mikephillips]

I'd like to see a cell phone that shuts off or refuses to connect if it detects movement faster than a walking or maybe running person would move. Then maybe the clueless wouldn't have them propped on the steering wheel or held in their laps as they drive.

 

[GregW]

I'd like to see a cell phone that shuts off or refuses to connect if it detects movement faster than a walking or maybe running person would move. Then maybe the clueless wouldn't have them propped on the steering wheel or held in their laps as they drive.

I once thought that way. How would a phone know if you weren't the passenger though?

 

[mikephillips]

Might be good for the passenger too, after all how often do you see two or more not actually talking to each other but scrolling away.

 

[GregW]

I'm not thinking just of personal vehicles. At work I regularly ride in a truck with other people. If our schedule or route changes, we need to talk to the boss. This can happen several times a day.

 

[YakkoWarner]

A configuration like that would play much havoc on busses and trains also - how do you isolate the driver from everyone else (on a train it would be more possible to block signal for the driver since the locomotive is normally separated from the passenger areas I suppose, but having some mechanism for overriding the block would be needed for emergencies).

 

[mikephillips]

The good old fashioned days of a radio??...

 

[equiprx]

I have an older vehicle and recently got a bluetooth adapter.
On the newer vehicles there is absolutely no excuse for holding a phone.