11-year-old Girl Wins $20K from AT&T for Road Safety App

[anti-painkilla]

^humans* noticed as I posted.

 

[guardianangel42]

Texting and driving made a tiny bit of sense back when everyone had standard phones with the ten number buttons instead of these qwerty keyboards since you could easily text a message without ever looking at your phone.

But now with touch screens taking even the old flip-out keyboard's tactile feedback out of the equation it's borderline insane. In order to text on a modern day smart phone you have to look at the phone at all times (or be ridiculously coordinated and have perfect muscle memory). That means taking your ENTIRE attention away from driving.

I honestly do not understand how anyone could be that stupid. They obviously are, but I don't understand it.

 

[830hobbes]

"Woof woof wo"

That's the message that caused me to drive into a tree. It can wait!

 

[QEFX]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]There's better ways of doing this.If GPS &| Accelerometer == > 20mph; And If Facial recognition detects bottom of steering wheel && Drivers door(to right from camera point of view);Then phone self destructs End If;[/citation]

Much better

 

[FloKid]

Would probably make you go faster : )

 

[alidan]

use the gps, if the car is going over 20 miles an hour, texting is disabled. the only way to enable it would be to prove you aren't the driver.

this would probably be taking a picture of the driver, or that you are in no way capable of being the driver, it gets sent off to a group of people who just press pass or fail button all day

if you pass, 1 hour unlocked texting, if you fail, 1 hour locked texting, regardless of if you slow down or not.

these 5-10 people who look at the pictures will be payed minimum wage, to 15$ an hour, depending on where you are here may be more or less people.

 

[sam_p_lay]

AT&T really are idiots if they're going to develop this.

 

[Guest]

@alidan

Driver: hey, unlock my phone please passenger
Passenger: sure, (takes pic of driver) hands phone back

...

 

[Learn_w_Graffix]

Car key is linked to phone (done at dealership, or via bluetooth enabled key, or car detects all phone signals in car and asks which one is the driver). Car identifies key in ignition, sends bluetooth or wifi to phone disabling texting OR (even better) car sends signal to carrier to disable texting. When key removed from ignition, texting is re-enabled.

 

[ojas]

It's a 11-year old's idea alright. I guess AT&T is run by 10-year olds, though.

 

[robochump]

Well I give props to the little girl but anything that tries to prevent drivers from texting that requires them to look at their phones to send or stop barks is a bad idea. The issue is keeping your eyes on the road!!! lol

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]SinisterN[/nom]@alidanDriver: hey, unlock my phone please passengerPassenger: sure, (takes pic of driver) hands phone back...[/citation]

hay, my can you breath into this, i got to many dui's and i cant start my car if i have and alchol in my system...

thanks

there will always be people who abuse the system like that. but it takes 2 people to do it, i believe if you are caught gameing the system like that, it should have worse punishments than a dui, because at least while drinking you are impaired, texting... you have no excuse why you are doing it while driving.