When Technology Saves Technology

    Cell phone connects people, but also kills people. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drivers are four time more likely to have an accident if they are talking on the phone - hands-free or not - while driving. In other words, it still has high possibility to have a car accident even though we're just having conversation with passengers. As a result, government started to regulate the use of cell phone strictly to reduce those kind of accident caused by using cell phone when driving. In the meantime, the battle between human and technology takes place because people never want to turn their cell phones off.

    Cell phone has become more and more functional and well developed that can almost replace all the portable electronic devices. People relatively tend to rely on this handy device doing many things, including talking, gaming, texting, or using it as a substitutive laptop. As a result, cell phone manufactures were focusing on high capacity batteries on cell phones to meet people's needs. Few years later, along with the development of wireless technology, people don't have to hold their cell phones all the time. The good news was that the car accident happened because of using hands-on was significantly reduced. Even if people are still distracted while talking on the phone, at least the technology keeps their both hands on the steering wheel.

    However, car accidents are still happened when people remove their sight from the road and try to dial and to check the screen. People hence prefer a kind of car, which embedded with hands-free system to lessen the risk when making phone calls. Drivers can easily "dial" someone through speaking to the microphone, which attached in the panel and answer phone calls through the button on the steering wheel. Today, one of the services of a famous wireless company provides a voice system to announce anyone who is trying to phone someone who is driving. The service might cost only few dollars to automatically transfer your incoming calls into voice mailbox and let callers know that you're driving. What an interesting thing is that it shows the technology is benefitted by another technology.

    Last, we actually just need to keep our cell phone off when driving and save money from those supplemental equipment or services. Because it's hard to regulate people not to use cell phone in driving, that's how business person make profit from this kind of human nature behavior.