Driving Mode Button. Block Texting With One Touch.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 7/10/2015 1:00:00 AM
There needs to be an easy way to turn texting off with one button.
Its extremely dangerous to send text messages while driving a car. Even people who have no intention to send messages can be easily distracted if they receive a message while driving.
Countless lives have been destroyed because of texting, so there should be some method to disable texting while driving.
Most mobile devices already have a quick and easy way to enable "Airplane Mode", so device makers should add a button to disable texting too. After all, more people drive each day than fly.
It's surprising that there isn't an option to disable texting anywhere in the settings menus of any of the major smartphones on the market. This option should not be added, but it should be added someplace like the lock screen, so that people can quickly find it and use it every time they drive.
Right now, the only way to disable texting is to turn the entire phone off or use Airplane Mode. While that seems like a simple solution, it also blocks you from using the GPS, and from making or receiving calls in the event of an emergency. Texting is never an emergency, so it should be something that can be turned off on the fly.
Taken to the next level, there should be an option to automatically turn off texting whenever the GPS in your phone detects that you are driving. This was mentioned in an earlier idea about parental controls for mobile phones.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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