I ran the digital forensics on this case. This is heart breaking for everyone involved: the woman who lost her husband, the children of the mother who went to jail. She was running late to work, her boss was texting her.
I ran a phone where a teenager drove off a steep embankment and died. The text she was trying to read was from her mother.
I don't want to analyze anymore texting and driving phones.
Last week I was listening to an NPR report that cell phones are conditioning us just as Pavlov did to his dogs with his bell (NPR reports that it was a buzzer and not a bell). Often the curiosity to look at our screen when the buzzer or bell sounds is too great for humans resist.
The no texting app, not only responds with a wait message for whoever is texting, it also reads the text aloud, satiating the drivers curiosity. I had some fun with the app this week. I had tickets to go see Jake Shimabukuro this week (about 3 hours away) and I ran the app on the drive up to Provo, UT. The GPS portion of the app is interesting. I expected it to give gps coordinates when an address was not near by, but it just listed location as "unknown". Still, the evil side to this type of feature would be to incorporate it into spouseware thus enabling stalking.
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