One of my pet peeves is texting while driving, or you are driving a late-model car that has Bluetooth yet you still have your phone slapped to the side of your head. I don’t care what anyone says or thinks, you can’t text and pay attention to your driving at the same time. No one can, and since to many people won’t learn that until they have an accident, Sony has come up with a very clever PSA that will turn your phone off for you.
Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Sweden, the Sony ads that take advantage of the “Hey Siri” listening feature on your phone and ask it to turn on Airplane Mode. It’s not fool proof, your phone has to be plugged in, and the listening feature has to be turned on, but you have to hand it to Sony for giving it a shot.
Now if we could just get hand set makers to set up a driving feature that turns off text messaging if you are moving faster than 10 miles an hour…