Texter radar detector while driving.

Un nouveau radar pour lutter contre l’envoi de SMS au volant

France Info numérique lundi 22 septembre 2014
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Ecrire un SMS au volant multiplierait par le 23 le risque d’un accident © Maxppp

Une entreprise américaine basée en Virginie développe un pistolet radar qui détecterait l’envoi d’un SMS en temps réel grâce aux ondes captées.

A USA company, based in Virginia, has developed a radar that detects SMS messages in real time thanks to signals captured. 

En captant et décodant les émissions d’ondes radio des téléphones portables, le radar portatif développé par l’entreprise américaine ComSonics aiderait les policiers à repérer les conducteurs qui envoient des SMS alors qu’ils sont au volant. Comme l’explique le journal local The Virginian-Pilot, le niveau et la longueur d’émission d’ondes varie si c’est un appel téléphonique ou un SMS en cours d’envoi.

La technologie n’est pas encore commercialisée mais elle pourrait intéresser les Etats américains ou la Sécurité routière en France. Un récent sondage montre qu’un tiers des conducteurs français de moins de 25 ans affirme écrire des textos en conduisant et deux tiers en lisent au volant. Un opérateur téléphonique américain propose déjà de bloquer l’envoi de textos une fois la voiture en mouvement via l’application “DriveMode”.

L’appareil n’est néanmoins pas encore en mesure de différencier le conducteur du passager avant ou arrière qui pourrait, lui, envoyer des SMS en voiture en toute légalité. Par ailleurs, l’entreprise américaine est encore en discussion avec des autorités juridiques qui veulent s’assurer que le contenu des textos ne sera pas rendu lisible par ce type d’appareil.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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