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[garhkal]

Print out map quest to get around before hand. Or have someone reading from a map.

Pull to the side of the road to make that emergency call..

[Falcon Horus]

In related news to all thse auto manufacturers. With all the current chatter about death from 'distracted driving' cause of texting/emailing etc by cell phone users while driving, why has not one auto maker looked into tech that shuts down (or just blocks) Cell phones working while the vehicle engine is turned on/in operation??

This technology exists. I know there are GPS systems which deny change when a person is driving, so you can't tinker while driving.

Plus, every new build car in the last 5 years has a handsfree set installed (bluetooth or otherwise). Ford even has a system in their cars which allows for texting. Just say the words, and the system does the rest, including reading messages out to you.

Pull to the side of the road to make that emergency call..

Emergencies are generally things where seconds count.

[BruTak]

Or have someone reading from a map.

Which is how us old fogies used to do it in the days before satnav and GPS.

[Falcon Horus]

Which is how us old fogies used to do it in the days before satnav and GPS.

Hey, I still have a map in my car - just in case.

[Gatefan1976]

Hey, I still have a map in my car - just in case.

Zombie prepper..............................

[Annoyed]

This pile just keeps getting smellier and smellier.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09...ting-software/

[Starsaber]

Print out map quest to get around before hand. Or have someone reading from a map.

Pull to the side of the road to make that emergency call..

I did use Mapquest before I had a GPS or smartphone and found having to read the map more distracting than having the GPS tell you the directions over your car stereo? I'm usually travelling alone, so having someone else reading from a map isn't an option.

Something does need to be done about distracted driving, but that was a problem well before smartphones.

[BruTak]

Hey, I still have a map in my car - just in case.

I can remember when I used to go on holiday with my folks, I'd be appointed navigator and would sit with the map while dad drove, and mum went into a tizzy if we went over forty miles an hour.

[jelgate]

Apparently you never left the city if your mother complained about going over 40 mph or your country has some very low speed limits

[BruTak]

Apparently you never left the city if your mother complained about going over 40 mph or your country has some very low speed limits

It was more "Going over 40mph on narrow country roads when you've no clue what's round the next corner".

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

It was more "Going over 40mph on narrow country roads when you've no clue what's round the next corner".

At night in fog?

[Annoyed]

I did use Mapquest before I had a GPS or smartphone and found having to read the map more distracting than having the GPS tell you the directions over your car stereo? I'm usually travelling alone, so having someone else reading from a map isn't an option.

Something does need to be done about distracted driving, but that was a problem well before smartphones.

A phone is a far bigger issue than a momentary distraction to pop a disc in or change the radio station, in addition, it has been shown that a radio can be helpful in keeping a driver alert; a long drive can be a mind-numbing exercise in boredom.

Very often the conversation itself distracts the driver so that his attention is on the conversation, rather than the task at hand, in addtion to all the other things people do on their phones these days.

[SoulReaver]

in that case ain't driving with passengers also dangerous? (unless they shut up)

[BruTak]

At night in fog?

Broad daylight. Mum isn't particularly fond of going at speed.

[Annoyed]

in that case ain't driving with passengers also dangerous? (unless they shut up)

People seem to place a higher priority on phone conversations than on real ones.