Textalyzer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/textalyzer-stop-texting-and-driving_us_570fcdbae4b08a2d32b94db6

Excellent. It should become law.

There is a fundamental issue here on the right to privacy and the relationship of meta data information about a person to that person.  It is a complex issue.  Complexity can be reduced to simplicity with algorithms to process them according to the rules that the program codifies.

Our privacy is a complex thing.  In the specific situation of texting while driving there should be an app for that.  It should detect speech to text.  Anything that requires eyes on the keyboard while driving should be recorded with a time stamp.  Cars should be equipped with "accident detectors" things like sudden impact stops, diversion of course, impact and bending of body panels, etc. to also record date time stamps.

Cars should also be equipped with biometric ID sensors to establish who was driving the car at any given time and sensors to determine if the texting device was within the view of the driver.

It would be a complicated app as far as the decision tree structure of objects and processes.  Not so hard to do.  The law should require it like seatbelts.  It should include protection from invading personal privacy but document any violation of texting while driving.

Just a matter of building it to satisfy requirements.  Some might say it can't be done.  We did put a man on the moon and write a constitution as well as create bank accounts and Netflix.

Implementation of a textalyzer would open a door by establishing the legal parameters of meta data in relationship to privacy.  We gave up all kinds of rights to privacy in the name of terrorism that kills American.  NSA says that meta data is fair game.

OK.   Let's use meta data to protect and save Americans on the road.  How many died or were injured in cars this year compared to killed by terrorists in the USA?

http://www.dorcs.org/ Distracted Drivers Risk Casualties

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/29/ny-father-fights-distracted-driving/2370837/

I was in a car last month that was hit by a car running a red light.  Distracted by texting? A young woman driver.  Immediately after the accident a friend of hers arrived and stopped her car immediately ahead of our parked cars.  Were they texting or was it coincidence.

Last year I was hit by a car that was hit by a car merging onto the freeway.  Distracted by driving?  A young driver in a Firebird caused the accident.

Recently there have been an unusual number of head on collisions in the vicinity of our small town.  People are wondering why?
 https://www.google.com/?client=seamonkey-a#q=head+on+collisions+bend+oregon&tbs=qdr:m

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/14/technology/texting-while-driving-textalyzer/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/

Textalyzer is a test case that opens the door to codification of the rights to personal related meta data.

Probably be a legal case and court decision someday that goes to the Supreme Court.