A recent article on Apple's new iPhone in TechNewsDaily starts with this headline: "iPhone Multitasking Could Make Driving Safer."
Wow. That one deserves a very simple: Really? No, Really?
It is too early for educated researchers to prove this, but I'd bet multitasking will make driving a lot more dangerous. Oh, new email! Wait, I hate this song. What's the cross street? Shoot. I think that was a stop sign.
The article goes on to explain that Illume Software, which makes a mobile application called iZUP (this is meant to read like "eyes up"), will now be capable of running on the iPhone, and therefore make us all solid, distraction-free drivers.
iZup blocks texting, calling and Web surfing while someone is driving. The software taps GPS data to sense when you¹re in a moving car.
And yet iZup doesn't totally lock you out of iPhone fun. It allows three numbers to break through the safety wall (meaning you can still chat with your special someone, hand-free of course), and one application can run.
Presumably this won't distract you. Just like scrambling to find that wireless headset before that inbound call drops isn't at all distracting.
Happy driving while multi-tasking.
