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Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:05 pm**

Long overdue. I see it all day long. I drive 30 miles one way to work, and I have seen drivers on their cell phones, since you can always tell by a drivers downward eye contact to his or her screen. The worst part is they drive slow and in the fast lane. I'd like to see fines of $250 or more.

6. And now, the texting detector

The police soon may have a new tool in their arsenal when it comes to detecting drivers who can't put their phones down.

A Virginia company called ComSonics is developing a radar gun-like device that detects the radio frequencies that are emitted from a vehicle when someone is using a cellphone. "Cable repairmen use similar means to find where a cable is damaged by looking for frequencies leaking in a transmission," Malcolm McIntyre of ComSonics told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper.

The company claims that the gun can tell the difference between a text and a phone call.

How soon the gun will be in the hands of police officers is anyone's guess. Bret V. Harrison, director of repair services at ComSonics, told Insurance.com that the device is still early in its development process.

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/6-ways-the ... 41789.html

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:10 pm**

So what's the difference between data and a text?
Hopefully they can tell the difference. Our phones are always doing things in the background these days.

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:21 pm**

The other item I thought about: what if you are driving with others in the car, and those other people are texting. Will it flag you as texting?

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:29 pm**

That doesn't make any sense. Your phone is transmitting data all the time. Granted, SMS is piggybacked via voice channel NOT data channel, but I still can't see how they could easily make something to discriminate that AND for a single vehicle.

Also, I use hands free texting, which is legal. So how do you discern that?

What's so hard about catching someone texting? Or distracted any other way like writing notes, or playing with their iPod for that matter? It doesn't matter WHAT you're doing, if your eyes aren't on the road then you can be cited for it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:31 pm**

Good points. My car reads my text messages to me and I use the voice feature to reply as well.

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Texting Detector coming...

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