Kentucky Debuts Free Smartphone Anti-Texting-While-Driving-App
Timed for National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the State of Kentucky is debuting a new, high-tech solution to the epidemic of texting and driving by offering motorists free, one-year subscriptions to TextLimit.com – a smartphone App that restricts touch screen and calling functions while the device is in a moving vehicle.
Bill Bell, Executive Director of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s Transportation Cabinet, says, “I am convinced the TextLimit app will help reduce the escalating incidents of distracted driving deaths and collisions in Kentucky and the U.S.”
“TextLimit works with a smartphone’s global positioning software to determine the speed of the user’s vehicle,” explains TextLimit’s President David Meers of Louisville.
“When a vehicle reaches a pre-selected speed limit the smartphone’s touch-screen is inhibited –therefore reducing the likelihood of distracted driving-related crashes.”
The new TextLimit ‘app’ is available free-of-charge to all of Kentucky’s 3.6 million licensed drivers and other residents.
The TextLimit application can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and TextLimit.com websites.
West Virginia is expected to follow suit later this month.
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