AT&T just released their own safe driving app called AT&T DriveMode. Its a free app that lets you customize an automated reply to text messages telling people that you are driving. It also allows you to set 5 numbers that you can accept calls from or call out to including 911. You can also set one music and one navigation app that can run while you are driving. The only catch is it seems like the app needs to be manually activated instead of automatically when you are moving. The new app is part of AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign that “aims to stigmatize texting while driving.” It is coming out first for BlackBerry and then for other platforms.
AT&T customers can pick up the DriveMode app in App World or read more about it here
BarracudaBob ( View Profile) - Posts: 1020
Posted: August 31, 2011 at 10:05 AM EST
This seems pretty lame to me. Sending messages telling people you are driving doesn’t cut it in my opinion. I use the free version of DriveSafe.ly that reads email and SMS and even that doesn’t quite meet my needs. If DriveSafe.ly could read my BBM messages, I’d actually buy the pro version.