Aegis Mobility's DriveAssist cripples your phone when you drive

Headset or no, talking on the phone while driving can be dangerous -- either to you or to your license. Various states have various bits of legislation indicating what is and is not allowed while in motion, but what if you want to have somewhat more specific controls over your kids or workers? That's the idea behind Aegis Mobility's DriveAssist (not to be confused with BMW's Drive Assist), described as a sort of nannified assistant for people on the go. Using GPS it determines the user's "driving context," disabling incoming and outgoing calls and texts and holding messages to deliver later. It's an interesting idea, and given the risks of texting while driving in particular it's a good one, but we wonder what happens if you're on a bus or sitting in the passenger seat.

[Via textually.org]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 2:24PM]

how do they seperate someone who's a passenger vs the driver? and life and death call for doctors and other emergency personnel?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2008 3:45AM]

I don't think it discriminates - passenger or driver, you won't be receiving or making calls. I do think, though, that, BMW is going to sue Aegis Mobility, lol.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 4:20PM]

That chick needs to be spanked.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 6:52PM]

Awesome, that's just what we need -- more artificial restrictions in our mobile devices!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2008 6:58AM]

Instead of having only the responsible people having to buy or pay for this how about a device that will jam cell phones while we drive within a certain distance from our location???