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by gautam on December 27, 2008

Realizing that people have still not learnt from these statistics, researchers from University of Utah have developed a device which ensures you don't make or receive calls while on the wheels. Dubbed as Key2SafeDriving car device, it disables cell phones when a specially engineered car key is inserted in the ignition of the car. It connects wirelessly via RFID or Bluetooth and disables the phone while driving so that the driver can neither make calls or text messages except for emergency 911 calls or any other important number. Incoming calls would be greeted by a response stating 'I am driving now'. Its only when the ignition is turned off the cell phone would start functioning normally.
Xuesong Zhou has a feeling it would find a lot of takers among parents of young children who don't feel like listening to their warnings of safe driving and following traffic rules. As of now there are no plans to commercialize it but whenever it's done I believe lot of responsible citizens would be willing to adopt it.
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Mr Wong
Vote for Key2SafeDriving: Keeps cell phone habits under check when you are on the wheels:
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Rating: 7.00 out of 5 vote(s) cast.
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Tony
(03/05/09 11:04pm)
You bet many responsible parents would adopt this. Maybe instead of just being a relay for commercial products you should be a proper journalist and do some research, like ask parents. But before you do that make sure you tell them about the other goodies in this scheme - GPS tracking of the car, and no doubt the location information will be available to any entity prepared to pay (like a spouse or business 'partner' ), or "entitled" to have it on their definition of terroristic need, sanctioned by some or other part of the Bush White House but somehow or other overlooked in any review of same.
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