On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:08 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
<<For a solution to work, it must respect the limitations of human cognition and the flaws in human intuition. A robust Driving Mode feature on phones would do just that. It would eliminate the most common sources of distraction: phone calls, text messages, games and social media. It should disable all communication between the phone and the outside world, with the exceptions of GPS, navigation apps and emergency notifications.
Windows 8 phones have had an excellent version of this feature for several years, but fewer than 3% of new smartphones run that operating system. Driving Mode isn't built into Apple's iOS or Google's Android phone operating systems. (A feature labeled "driving mode" on some phones merely reads messages aloud, converting one form of distraction into another.)
Driving Mode will be useful only if people use it, and various insights from the behavioral sciences can increase the chances that they will. It must be easy to turn on, ideally with the flick of a physical switch, or at least with as few taps as possible. To minimize the social pressure that we feel to respond immediately, Driving Mode should automatically send a customizable "I'm driving now" reply to texts and calls and hold your messages until you arrive. This feature is also on Windows 8 phones, but it belongs on the other 97% of phones, too.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-simple-solution-for-distracted-driving-1446218317
Posted by: Kris Murray <krismurray@gmail.com>
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