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This week, Chapel Hill, N.C., enacted one of the country's most stringent bans on cellphone use by a driver operating a vehicle.
"The N.T.S.B.'s recommendation of a blanket ban on all electronics use by a driver is unsupported by the data," the association wrote in a letter to the safety board this month, citing "real world" driving studies that it said did not show the ban was needed.
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Of course, there is the difficulty of distinguishing a phone's being used by a driver or one being used by a passenger, but why not try?
Volvo will operate the same vehicles, developing a system designed to be owned and used by a driver, partly under the guise of safety.
Used by a driver whose eyes should be on the road, that sounds dangerous, but Mr. Schneider considers it better than the alternative: "At least they are not fishing for their stylus".
"While text messaging is banned for drivers in 46 states and the District of Columbia, many people continue to do it, despite knowing the dangers," Verizon says on a site that promotes free apps and other services available for iPhone and Android that can detect if a phone is being used by a driver and prevent texting.
Driver Mode, in NHTSA's proposal, would block those locked out features but offer a simplified, easier to use interface on the device itself for when pairing while driving isn't an option or isn't used by a driver.
There are good reasons for this situation; software running on an infotainment system will be used primarily by a driver.
Had this been used by a daily driver it may cause safety issues, but since our ParKontroller will not be commercialized and distributed to public for use, it will not endanger the public or the environment.
Police have already seized one jammer that was being used by a van driver following tests by the team, who have built a system that can detect the disruption caused by the jammers.
Another aftermarket device helps secure your car by using a driver's fingerprints.
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