Show HN: Road Rules – fun, interactive way to stop texting while driving

roadrules.co

17 points·ljensen··6 comments

I think this is a great idea.

Having something for accountability (besides fighting one's own addiction) is helpful.

I've found myself responding at stop lights, which inevitably means finishing a text after the light turns green.

It looks like this app does a good job of communicating the most important statuses on the user's behalf, removing that responsibility.

How does it know if I'm driving, or merely a passenger? This seems impossible.

Currently, there is a heads-up notification to indicate that you are a passenger. So if you're using your phone as a passenger, you can dismiss it right away.

Going forward, we're researching ideas on how to tell the difference.

Here's a screenshot: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/1057573952975799919...

It's not impossible to detect passenger vs. driver, it's just not easy. ;-)

I love the application of a text base interface to text. It's the way this problem used to be solved.

What's the privacy policy?

I'm glad that you like the idea.

Here's the official privacy policy: http://roadrules.co/terms/privacy.html

We're trying to maintain everyone's privacy while offering a helpful service. Some ways that we are doing that include

- In the app, the user has a white list to manage who can request location and availability data. - Maintaining as much data on the phone as possible (versus sending it to the cloud).

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