Key2SafeDriving aims to ensure safe driving with smart wireless key

While it depends upon one’s discretion whether or not to believe that cellphones are a cause of health risks, there is no doubt that texting while driving and other related actions have been causing a lot of accidents on the road lately.

Many busy people engage in talking over the phone while driving their cars, as well as reading or sending text messages to friends and family. These activities require one, if not both hands, and ultimately cause a person’s attention to drift away from the wheel and the road to the phone screen and keypad.
The quickest way to remedy this problem is by using handsfree units and Bluetooth headsets. This has worked great for a lot of people, but apparently not for University of Utah engineers who have invented “a wireless car key device to stop teenage motorists from talking on their cell phone or sending text messages while driving.”

The system, called Key2SafeDriving, works with a special car key that’s equipped with a wireless sensor such as Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification). Every time the key is used to start the car’s engine, the slid out car key activates a sensor that sends a signal to the user’s phone to put it into “driving mode.” And while in driving mode, a cellphone cannot be used to talk or send text messages. Meanwhile, a “STOP” sign will be displayed on the phone’s screen, and only calls to emergency numbers such as 911 and other predetermined numbers can be made.

Currently, Key2SafeDriving has been licensed to a private company that hopes to put the product into market “within six months at a cost of less than $50 per key plus a yet-undetermined monthly service fee.” And while I don’t have doubts that this product will be put into market, I’m not sure if it will be well-received by the public.

Its makers pride it for being fool-proof in that it can’t be “tricked” by turning a cellphone off and then on again because the car key constantly sends out the “driving mode” signal whenever it is extended and in use. However, nothing prevents the user from simply turning of his/her phone’s Bluetooth or RFID sensor, and not caring a thing about the Key2SafeDriving car key. In that case, it’s up to the user to decide, though if you’ve already bought the Key2SafeDriving system for $50 and have signed up for a hefty monthly service fee, you might want to use it anyway.

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