Soon Your iPhone Won't Work While You're Driving
Apple is about to get involved with your life every time you get behind the wheel. Specifically, the company is trying to save it.
When the company releases iOS 11, users will find a new feature prompting them to activate a ‘do not disturb while driving’ mode, which will prevent any notifications appearing at all. The idea is to take away the temptation for we young ‘uns to look at our smartphones while we’re driving. To be fair, it really is a daft thing to do and it does cost lives.
If the phone owner ‘forgets’ to turn it on, the phone can guess when it’s in a moving vehicle anyway, thanks to its motion sensors, GPS and WiFi systems. Trying to ‘unlock’ the phone will be purposely difficult to do while driving, but easy if you’re an innocent passenger.
The system won’t stop you pre-connecting the phone via Bluetooth or USB, allowing you to access some of the device’s functions legally through the car.
The software can also ping a simple reply to anyone who messages the driver’s phone while they’re behind the wheel. Something along the lines of an automated “I’m driving right now and will get back to you when I get where I’m going” is thought to be the gist of it. A similar Android app to perform the same job already exists.
Developers are even working on software to sell to companies, who would then force their staff to use it. What’s your take on this? Should phone makers be taking steps to stop people using their phones while driving, and will people simply activate any override they can, no matter the danger?
Via: Financial Times
Comments
My iphone barely works when im not driving either
This is the icon - yes I have iOS 11 beta 2 - and COMMUNITIES DON’T WORK ON IOS 11!!!!
That’s excellent! According to stereotypes, most imbeciles that text and drive have an iPhone!
Android users be like: “What took you guys soo long?”
This is a stupendously good idea that’ll teach those teenage Instagramers to stop using their phone while driving!
I’m 17 myself and I feel that I could never use my phone, even as a passenger to any moving vehicle (well… apart from listening to tunes on a plane)
I hope this reduces crashes massively, thus car insurance becoming cheaper!
technology is getting so good its actuallly getting worse
when sometings a lot its a lot
Good, less motivation for people to oogle at their phones instead of looking at the road
I use my phone while driving for directions. I sure hope that’s one devices functions that are legal and they don’t overcomplicate it either
Apple’s idea of innovation is taking
android features and apps from the
google play store and implimenting it to
the iPhone a couple of years later.
Unemployment rate about to explode because of the number of employees fired cause they wont get all the urgent calls and messages of their boss/clients while driving (you better find a apartment next to your working place right now iPhone users…another reason to let’s get down this overpriced full marketing brand).