Textecution

Textecution is an application developed for the T-Mobile G1 Google phone that restricts the user's ability to text message while driving. It is estimated that 46% of teens text message while driving, a potentially dangerous behavior.[1]

How It Works

A GPS fix determines when the phone is traveling higher than 10 mph and Textecution shuts down the texting abilities. If a user is not driving, he or she can request permission to turn texting on. The parent can allow for the texting to be enabled in this case.[2]

Reception

Textecution has been reviewed by publications including TechCrunch, Wired, Gizmodo, GSM Nation, KTEN, and AOL Finance.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

gollark: Would any of the AI art things actually make it that clean and symmetrical?
gollark: > We are so still at number 1. Is humanity worthy of unlimited power? I’ve heard Larry Page believes the AIs are our children and know more about righteousness than we do. But even early Yudkowsky writings understood this makes no sense, and that superintelligence doesn’t imply supermorality.
gollark: It just says stupid things too.
gollark: That blog post explicitly mentions the orthogonality thing.
gollark: Basedness is measured in pH, actually.

References
  1. Parker, Phil (11 July 2007). "AAA study: 46 percent of teens text while driving". The Albuquerque Tribune.
  2. "Product tries to brake texting". Business. Florida Times-Union. 29 December 2008.
  3. https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/22/textecution-hopes-to-put-an-end-to-texting-while-driving/
  4. https://www.wired.com/2008/12/textecution-sto/
  5. https://gizmodo.com/textecution-tries-to-stop-your-kid-from-texting-while-d-5116258
  6. https://www.gsmnation.com/blog/2014/07/15/5-must-apps-parents-teen-drivers/
  7. http://www.kten.com/story/12093048/textecution-new-app-that-stops-texting-while-driving
  8. https://www.aol.com/2009/10/24/textecution-puts-an-end-to-teen-texting-while-driving/


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