Automated phone solution to disable texting while driving

I text all the time while I'm driving. It goes like this:
"Ding"
"Send a text to my wife."
"I can send a text to (name here), What would you like to say?"
"I'm on my way period, see you soon period"
"Your message says, I'm on my way. See you soon. Do you want to send?"
"Send"
"Message sent."

No problems. What's the point to this? Siri will also read texts to me, if I ask, but I normally figure that those can wait.

Problems CAUSED by technology can be FIXED by technology!

While I don't particularly like this idea, many will view it as a major safety enhancement. It's unseemly, at best, for Apple to apply for a patent on this. If indeed it is a major safety enhancement, they should be donating it to the industry.

I voted yes simply because I think it a very dumb idea to text while you drive. I was a very busy handyman with all the excuses under pressure in time and work schedules. My saving grace was that before that I was a transport driver in eighteen wheelers mainly on the road between Durban (main import harbour) and Johannesburg (commercial driver hub) in South Africa. I am the holder of a certificate in defensive driving. This; however; did not save me from the horror of mangled cars and bodies on that road.

It is fact that alcohol, drugs and other distractions cause accidents. Even the buzzing fly on the windscreen can do it. For this reason I am not even convinced of the vaunted HUD designs on windscreens. We were taught to be able to hold a conversation while driving, BUT WITH THE PROVISO that the person in the driver's seat had the right and the duty to stop the conversation by simply saying; "Quiet please, I am busy driving". I still do it today. The passenger had the obligation to obey that command since by law the driver is in full control. The driver also had (and I think still has it) the prerogative to off load the disobeying passenger at the nearest police station. If you text while driving, you are not in control. Period.

When my mobile rang while I was driving , I would pull in a safe lay bye and then answer. This was a decision I made simply on principle and obviously driven by what I had seen. If you don't have the discipline to curb your own bad habit in texting while you drive, you deserve to be treated like a child.

Funny thing though. All advertisements show the victims and the sufferers of these accidents. What is not shown are the perpetrators. Not even to name and shame them, but go ask them and you will find that they cannot live with it. Or they are completely arrogant and disregarding of other road users.

Companies can help by making it a condition of employment. Cause such an accident and you immediately lose your job. 24 hours notice. Insurers the same. Lose your insurance immediately permanently. Or simply do not insure that kind of accident.

Accident is a misnomer. Accidents do not happen, they are made, because they are the result of a compounding series of errors and oversights. When you drive a vehicle, you are just a machine minder. No matter how flash or bright your Merc or Lambo.

Ther are a number of things my 2012 Prius will not allow me to do while the car is in motion. Some of the limitations are not to my liking, but I manage to learn and live with them. Better than the alternative...

I vote no because removing a link with outside world in emergency of any nature not a good idea. Best cure is to penalise offender heavily (like taking vehicle out of service for a month) or a heavy fine enforced at source ie via employment or via social security funding. In other words to ensure fine is actually paid. That will cure people's bad habits very quickly.

Unfortunately, something like this is all too necessary; it has been amply & repeatedly proven that too many people have no sense and they will talk, chat, text &/or surf when they really need to pay attention to their driving. It is a fact of life that the very people who most need NOT to text are the very ones who are least likely to voluntarily curtail their activities.
Instituting strict penalties for using cell phones while driving is only as effective as enforcement; which is to say, not at all.
Although I would resent being told I can or can't do something with my own device, I personally won't use my phone when driving. If I am expecting an important call or message, I pull over.
Which all seems rather conjectural anyway--the technology in question applies only to Apple, does not actually exist and may or may not work as projected (in fact, almost certainly will not).
If something like this were to be implemented, it would have to be implemented for all phones, not just Apple.

Hey, if it saves just one child's life!!!

I don't know what the answer is but I do know that in the US and Canada and lots of Europe you have to hit people over the head with a two by four to get them to pay any attention to safety issues at all and because of this there is no political will from government to enforce anything . In Montreal Quebec Canada I think the population would prefer watch paint dry then discuss safety and its probably the same everywhere else.