• Proposal :

We are proposing an idea to improve safety for drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and anyone else that can be affected by distracted driving, specifically, cell phone use while driving.

Our idea is to create something that sets off an alarm if your phone is picked up while driving. This will be a reminder to the driver to leave their phone alone. Also, nowadays with Bluetooth phones can be connected to the cars and touching your phone is unnecessary.

Define

• Cell phone use while driving could be stopped by an alarm that is connected to your phone, as a reminder not to touch it while driving.

Discover

• Apps, turning phone on silent, turning phone completely off and putting cell out of reach, but this hasn’t been enough in the past, we need more.
• So, therefore a new creation is necessary

Dream

• Alarm that senses and goes off when you touch your phone.
• Alarm sounds when your phone has sensed that it’s been picked up it will automatically shut off- or an alarm that notifies you to not touch your phone.
• A phone that has a car mode on it.

Deliver

• Alarm hooked up in a parallel circuit.
• So, like a seat that knows when the seat belt is needed in, because there is someone sitting there. It will be a contraption that knows if your phone is there and can sense when phone is lifted up.  (video, picture, diagram, chart

Design

• Box with sensor/scale that senses when phone is lifted
• Parallel circuit – so if one part fails, it will still work.
• dark box to hide screen from driver
• Alarm sounds when phone is touched or lifted out of box