This is how the future 'car mode' that Traffic claims for mobile phones works


This is how the future 'car mode' that Traffic claims for mobile phones works


Limit the functionality of the 'smartphone' to avoid distractions at the wheel



"Since 2016, mobile is the first cause of fatal accidents, above alcohol and speed", are words of the general director of Traffic. More than 50% of Spanish drivers use their mobile phones while driving , according to the study on Knowledge and Perception of Road Safety, prepared by the Ponle Freno-AXA Study Center in collaboration with Kantar TNS.

The DGT warns: "distractions were behind 25% of accidents and 31% of those killed in 2016". Specifically, 16% read text messages, 13% write on the mobile and another 13% use it to talk, without the hands-free device.

"I am fascinated that, when you get on the plane, you turn off the phone and it is more dangerous to use it in the car," Navarro argued in an interview with RNE this week. A declaration of intentions addressed to the 'telcos' . "I think the telephone companies should be involved, they will have to campaign, put the car mode," proposes Navarro.

"We have nothing to do about it," a source in the industry tells Innova +. "If a regulation is approved, obviously, it will apply, but we do not know anything about it," they say from the employers' association of telecommunications companies in Spain.

The proposal of the new general director of Traffic is focused on the 'airplane mode'. This option available in mobile phones causes the mobile device to lose almost all the connectivity that is predetermined .

Once activated this mode, the system does not allow to call anyone, or connect to the Internet, or receive or send SMS. A way thought to avoid interferences with the systems of the airships, but that its application in the vehicles has already been thought of. «The new smartphones and tablets come from the factory loaded with apps and other functions, which are easily activated through on-screen icons. While the flight mode comes as a standard problem, where is the equivalent for the car? Steve Gooding, director of the British RAC Foundation, denounced in 2016.

Spain has been the last country to launch the technology glove, but the United States has done it before. iOS and Android have already been put with it. Apple phones with iOs 11 detect when you can be driving

Spain has been the last country to launch the technology glove, but the United States has done it before. iOS and Android have already been put with it. The phones of the giant of Cupertino, only with iOS 11, "detect when you can be driving, shows a description of the Do not disturb driving when you have stopped," explained from Apple.

A detection that is "activated automatically when the iPhone connects to the car via Bluetooth." Another option "is the use of the accelerometer," says Elías Izquierdo, responsible for Mobileye. This device, which is a small chip that works with nanotechnology, is composed of two fixed metal plates, one in front of the other.

One of those plates is mobile so by applying a force or acceleration on the smartphone, the capacity of the capacitor will change. It will become larger or smaller depending on the movement, since the moving plate will move.

The Car Mode of iOS 11 allows detecting the movement of the vehicle , an action that the user can determine manually. This pre-installed system deactivates several functions of the Cupertino giant's devices. The iPhone remains silent and the screen remains off . "If someone sends you a message, you receive an automatic response that lets you know you're driving," explains Apple.

 "If the message is important, the sender can write the word" urgent "to make sure you get a notification. So, you can park to read the important message or ask Siri to read it to you, "he adds.

In the case of calls, Apple follows the path of the Do Not Disturb standard: only calls from the Favorites can be allowed, "as well as allowing calls to arrive if the same person calls twice in a row," they point out.

In the case of the 'car mode' Android, already incorporated in some Samsung devices , cancels all the functionalities of the phone and allows only those that you can use driving like music or the browser . In addition, it provides very large and bright buttons so that they are easily detectable while driving.

The DGT has not broadened the statements of its CEO and the telecommunications and automobile employers "are unaware of Navarro's plans," they say to Innova +.

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