Will It Work? Ford Takes The Easy Road To Solving Distracted Driving

Ford U.K. and road-safety organization Brake launch a campaign to banish mobile phones from the driver’s sight by placing them in the phone box.

The phone box already is in every vehicle – it’s what’s known to most people as the glovebox.

Ford says in a statement that research reveals 39% of drivers do not know the historic intended use of the glovebox was a place to store driving gloves when most vehicles were designed without roofs.

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MDarringer - 11/17/2017 4:30:11 PM

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Making a phone unusable inside a car in the driver's hand is a doable thing. Distracted driving also pertains to the touch screens with menus and sub-menus that replace simpler and more user-friendly knobs and buttons.

TomM - 11/18/2017 7:09:43 AM

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Hacking a phone to allow it to work inside a car designed to prevent that is also a doable thing - it will likely take DAYS for everyone to have the APP available.

It is not currently illegal for a passenger to use a phone in a moving car - and how they will work around that one is another question. It is not unusual for the heads of companies to do so - with a driver in the front. I would suggest that it will be hard to change that one -because there would be a need to show it being a problem - which I doubt they can show. (Congressional representatives probably do this) THe first time someone DIES because a message to a Doctor was intercepted - will cause a major problem.

In the end - until the humans in the car are not driving - I doubt there will be a workable solution that cannot be easily defeated.