I second Ed's suggestion. Is it telling that I had a bunch of guys in my car as passenger and while I was driving, my cellphone rang in my pocket. One of them told me that my phone was ringing, expecting me to answer it even though we were driving at high speed and I was concentrating on traffic, so I explained: I have voicemail, exactly for this purpose that when I can't take a call, they can leave a message and I can check later after I finished driving, who called and what they called me for. All started laughing nervously, as if this was a new concept, but one piped up to express that he agreed that this was the best solution in this case.
Uh, is this not normal and do I need to be an exceptional example to not answer my phone while driving? It blew my mind and reminded me *why* we see an increase in traffic related deaths since 2010. The town I live in even received a grant for its Public Safety organisation to help counter this negative trend and give more focus on traffic safety. Car makers would do well to pay attention to avoiding technology distraction inside cars. I know that the Leaf does not allow to operate its menu as long as it is driving. I know because I was in (long) line for a traffic signal and browsed through the menu to set the time on the dash when cars in front of me started rolling so I followed and the menu changed from the time adjustment to a warning that menu operations are blocked while moving. This warning stayed as long as the car was rolling. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Ed Blackmond via EV Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 9:34 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] $52M/yr 'Quiet (Electrified) cars' alert-sound rules by2019/09 > On Nov 15, 2016, at 7:14 AM, Thos True via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > .It is the pedestrian blinded by > electronics technology that we need to concern ourselves with! > Maybe we could have something that disabled cell phones. That would cure the distracted driver problem too. Ed _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
