my cell phone does much of what was described above. I have an Apple iPhone 7plus and a 2016 Civic EX with carplay.
A new thing recently with the phone is it is disabled when car / bike is moving. Anyone calling or texting will get an auto reply saying i am driving
and will get back to them when able. Prior to that i could answer hands free. Even have a text read to me by the car and also was able to reply to text
by voice and send it. Pretty cool.
Well, like I said I'm not a smartphone techie and sounds like devices already have some of the lockout capability I described. Above sounds great and if new phones have this then we should see a gradual decline in distracted driving accidents as old phones are replaced with new ones.
While fatalities per miles driven have been declining for years as cars get safer eliminating a huge percentage of accidents resulting in property damage, injury or death is still important. Also, I think the distracted driving/accident numbers are understated. What driver is going to freely admit they were using a cellphone when they plowed into something or someone.
In terms of post accident proof of cellphone use change laws to stipulated that any accident with property damage > $1,000 ( or pick a better number ) or any injury means automatic surrender of driver cellphone and securing cellphone activity from provider and then hit driver with fines and increased insurance cost. While there are still lots of HTA 172 charges placed every year the financial consequences of getting charged likely impacts and slows down a significant number of riders/drivers and increased enforcement and consequences could have a similar impact on cellphone users.