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
And how will the phone know if you are driving vs. riding in an uber, bus, cab, or friends car as a passenger?
its about time.
I’m a Team Droid. Never had an iPhone. But I hope Droid will do This! Too many people on the road messing with their phones while driving. I even saw a cop texting & driving…smh.
Horse hockey I have a dash mounted cradle I use voice commands Siri dials for me. Lock my Iphone you can refund my money I bought it for the way it works now.
I have a Toyota RAV4, I keep my phones Bluetooth on. I don’t get messages while driving. Just calls through my cars system.
This is a great idea but can you still use the gps? Let’s face it we all pretty much need the gps, so if we can’t use it you will have a lot of people complaining about this.
It’s time iPhone users come to the dark side.
This is might finally be the droid you’re looking for:
Suppose you are not the person driving? Personally my phone goes in the center console when I am driving because I have a brain and do not text and drive. Does everyone need a nanny now to force them to use common sense to not drive and text? Pathetic!
I work for apple and it seems like there’s a lot of confusion in the comments about this. This is a feature you have to CHOOSE to enable. It’s not something you are forced into. If anyone thinks this is going to cause more problems they should consider the fact that people who are going to actually enable this are people who know they shouldn’t be texting and already don’t text and
Drive. You can set it up so specific people can still get through to you.
Don’t get too excited android users, y’all are next