RIM patent stops texting while driving while forcing it at the same time
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To override the block, the driver will have to type the answer to a CAPTCHA challenge, presumably while driving |
While this certainly sounds like a great idea, in typical 'RIMsian' fashion, there is a major drawback to the whole thing. The problem with this idea is that to override the lockout, the driver needs to answer a CAPTCHA challenge which means having to type out a word while presumably driving a vehicle, thus forcing the device's user into doing the very thing that the patent is designed to prevent. It's a Catch 22 situation and probably explains why we haven't seen this on any BlackBerry model.
source: USPTO via Engadget
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11 Comments
1. Birds posted on 11 Jul 2012, 14:11 2 1
If people want to be stupid and text and drive, and risk other people's lives; I used to think why stop them until I got into a car accident recently with my dumb ass cousin driving and texting....IDK if RIM's execution if this will be well recieved but more cellphone companies need to do more stuff like this...
7. ibap posted on 11 Jul 2012, 16:48 1 2
Once on a business trip I refused to get in a car that someone who had been drinking was going to drive.
Get some guts.
9. Birds posted on 11 Jul 2012, 17:03 1 0
What part of I got into a car accident because my cousin was texting and drving did you not get. The car is totaled...I got like two broken ribs dude....Not to mention my cousin is still in ICU...He got it really bad....Wasn't wearing a seat belt either... People like you need to shut up when you don't know details...
11. troutsy posted on 12 Jul 2012, 08:22 0 0
ibap is the new hybrid type of troll that combines condescension and wet-blanketing to the extreme!
2. akita256 posted on 11 Jul 2012, 14:38 1 0
My guess would be that RIM never put this into effect because how does the phone know who the driver is? Seems like it would affect passenger's phones as well. And NOBODY would like that. How does the phone know that it is being used by the DRIVER?? That's what I want to know.
And Alan, it's "Rate" of speed.............not "Rage" of speed.
3. Birds posted on 11 Jul 2012, 14:47 0 0
I'm guessing from the captcha...enter the captcha if you are not driving lol
5. akita256 posted on 11 Jul 2012, 15:22 0 0
I guess you may be right. But then the entire concept is based on an illogical premise (which may be why we never saw it in effect as Alan pointed out). That is, anyone who knows it's dangerous to text while driving isn't going to do it anyway. But for someone who wants to text and drive even though he knows it's dangerous will enter the code into the Captcha and continue to text and drive. Entering a code isn't any harder than texting while driving. The concept was just based on faulty logic.
6. Birds posted on 11 Jul 2012, 15:44 0 0
The only effective way I see it possible is if they use a NFC chip in the steering wheel of a car and when the cellphone gets in contact with the NFC chip and the GPS is realizing that you are in motion then it will shut down text messaging...but then wait nevermind, I see flaws in my hypothesis. ROFL
4. Sparhawk posted on 11 Jul 2012, 15:17 1 0
It WOULD affect the passengers' phones, but that is the point of the CAPTCHA: to allow passengers that can focus on their phones the ability to override it. I would assume the CAPTCHA was intended to make it too difficult to do it while driving, but some idiot will certainly try it.
8. ibap posted on 11 Jul 2012, 16:50 1 1
Make it legal for cops to pull over people texting when there is no other reason to pull them over, and then cite them for any other violations as well (seat belts, missing plate lights, etc.). The municipalities will love it (revenue) and it might convince even some of the complete idiots to stop.
10. xtroid2k posted on 11 Jul 2012, 17:35 0 0
This reminds me of the seatbelt commercials click it or ticket
