There are certain states in the US that prohibits the use of mobile smartphones while driving, as it can cause accidents. It isn’t necessarily ideal to go through traffic while checking out your friends’ latest status on Facebook, right? To appease the consumers’ thirst to multi-task while doing tedium activities, manufacturers are coming up with their own features for smartphones to do just that.
Sprint has come up with a new Android app that can simply limit or restrict your phone’s function while driving. The DriveFirst is an optional application available on Sprint’s long list of Google-powered smartphones. The function of this app is quite simple: It would eliminate the user’s capabilities of using the phone while it’s on “drive” mode. Upon choosing to activate this app, it would lock the smartphone’s screen upon sensors detecting that the vehicle is moving.
It will also program all of your calls to be redirected to voice mail and blocks text message alerts. You might as well turn your phone off. To make things more quirky, Location Labs have added an extra feature in the app which sends pre-programmed responses to anyone who tries to contact you, stating you are unavailable at the moment. If you think about it, it really doesn’t promote multi tasking- it defeats its purpose.
This new app by Location Labs makes people aware of what’s really important: safety above all else. If you’re interested of teaching your child discipline and can’t seem to do it without the help of an external program, you can get one of these as it becomes released on the third quarter of 2011. It will only cost you $2 per month atop what you’re currently paying in your wireless service.
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I like how the navigation screen in the picture shows a clear straight road with no cross streets and yet there’s this red SUV right in front driving completely perpendicular to where the road should be. I think the only distracted person in that picture was the artist.