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Safety While Driving who was quoted in the Sept. 5 Argus Leader story, "This isn't about seeing how many people we can pull over. We know that there will be voluntary compliance, and 75 percent of us will follow the law."
• The passage of texting bans may also encourage technological advances to catch up enough to solve the problems that technology itself has created.
• A variety of apps or locks are available for GPS-enabled phones that disable the phones when they are moving more than 5 or 10 miles per hour. Some even send an automated text to anyone who tries to text or call, saying that the recipient is driving.
• The problem has been that such locks keep passengers from talking or texting just as much as they do the driver. A not-yet-released technology from engineers at Rutgers University solves that problem by using the Bluetooth-enabled speakers in the car to help the phone tell whether it is being used by a driver or a passenger.
• If such technology were commonly available on most phones, the "to text or not to text" question would be out of a driver's hands.