University of Utah engineers have invented a wireless car key device (sample shown at right) to stop teenage motorists from talking on their cell phone or sending text messages while driving. Each driver of a car would have a separate key device. When the key is extended from the device, it sends a signal to the teenage driver's phone, putting the phone in "driving mode" so it cannot be used to talk or send texts.Huh. Anybody see a "911" exception?
And looky here:
Limiting some cell calls by adults "is a step in the right direction," he says.Naturally. If we're going to teach the next generation they are untrustworthy and in need of external control, isn't it up to us to set the example?
I note the inventor is a urologist. Somehow, that seems so fitting.
[Via The Bitter Clinger]