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Using a GPS receiver in a car and in a phone, disable the texting or other features when the two GPS signals report the same location.
For [bigsleep]
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Or just use GPS within a phone to bar texting over a certain speed. That way it'll work in all cars, not just your own. |
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Not many people would choose to have this though, and not many governments would be keen to legislate for it. |
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Is it possible to drive without thumbs?
That could work. |
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//Or just use GPS within a phone to bar texting over a certain speed. That way it'll work in all cars, not just your own.// |
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Or rather, convert the text to speech. |
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//Or rather, convert the text to speech// |
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No wait. Why haven't we got voice SMS ? |
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just install a cellphone jammer in each new car, tied to the engine. If the car engine is running, no phone will work inside the car. |
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Doesn't stop people texting/phoning if the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, or if they are stuck in a traffic jam (provided they turn off the engine to save fuel or whatever). |
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[bigsleep]: I was thinking of receiving text - but fair point. |
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I was involved in a research project that had this functionality as a subset. The innovation was a system that sought to tailor content delivery to the context of the user: while in the vehicle, any text services could be converted to text; while in meetings, incoming phone calls may be converted to text or blocke; video could be transcoded on the fly to fit a particular device or wireless capacity etc. |
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Generally, folks who drive vehicles with onboard GPS also have
handsfree headsets and/or expensive Bluetooth speaker systems
and don't bother with texting because it's quicker and easier to
make a call. |
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Given that speech-to-text and voice commands are becoming
very widely Baked, as is the ability to dictate voicenotes and
send them as MMS, traditional texting is soon to be rendered
obsolete. The problem lies with people who still use non-
smartphones that lack such advanced features as GPS, and
sometimes even Bluetooth. I talk to people every day who are
still using Motorola RAZRs that are 2-5 years old, and
Blackberries that are even older. This idea would do nothing to
stop them from texting, and would disable a feature that is
rarely, if
ever, used in a vehicle by the people who do have such
advanced devices. |
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What about the passengers ? How do you discriminate just the driver ? |
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//Why haven't we got voice SMS ?//
Telecom NZ had (has?) this, brought in as competition for Vodafones txt capability in the early days. See link.
And doesn't txt-to-speech and speech-to-txt kind of defeat the prurpose? Voice-mail works just the same (I still want the phone itself to run the voicemailbox, not the provider; I'm just not nerd enough to write the sofware myself. I have an HTC Titan, if anyone's looking for a programming project...). |
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No-one rides as a passenger in a car nowadays. |
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//No-one rides as a passenger in a car nowadays.// |
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When self-navigating cars are the norm it will be a huge waste of fuel. |
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//How do you discriminate just the driver ?// |
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GPS silly. The driver's seat has different coordinates. |
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Could we just eliminate mobile phones? |
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//How do you discriminate just the driver // |
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Just make sure they're a sheila, or something. |
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My phone has this neat application that allows me to connect to another person's phone anywhere in the world, and when I talk into my phone, they can hear me, even though they might be thousands of miles away. If everyone had this it could render texting obsolete. |
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I've never quite understood why you'd send someone a cryptic message in gobbledygook when you can dial their number and talk to them. |
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When's the last time you were skint, UB? |
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//I've never quite understood why you'd send someone a cryptic message in gobbledygook //
You'd have to ask Grand Admiral Dönitz |
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hmm... how about "texting-only" lanes with barriers between them and the other lanes ? |
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Look the solution is simple. Text while driving and get caught and we cut off your thumb. Second offenders loose the right to drive entirely for the duration of their lives. |
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