When calls and texts come through, the app will automatically respond with a default "I'm driving, so I cannot answer at the moment", message, which can also be customised. Simple in nature, the app will automatically activate when it detects the user is traveling via the phone's Global Positioning System. Samsung hasn't said how exactly the app will work if you're a passenger in a vehicle, but presumably there's some way to manually turn off the automatic functionality.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that at any given daylight moment there are 660,000 people on their phones while driving in the USA, and that number is even more sobering when you consider the 3,477 deaths in 2015 that were caused by distracted driving.
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Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve accused Le Pen of attempting to exploit the killing, "as she does after every tragedy". Conservative candidate Fillon and far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon have closed the gap substantially in the last two weeks.
Samsung Netherlands launched the app under a beta test locally two weeks ago, as part of an effort to address phone usage while driving or riding. They can even customize the response with their own message. Amsterdam is of course the bicycle capital of the world and that mode of transport is ubiquitous in the country. The app uses your phone's Global Positioning System to operate so you'll have to have it on all the time.
The Dutch survey commissioned by Samsung found that a third of respondents used their phones in handheld mode while driving or riding. The reason for this impulse to respond, PanelWizard reveals, is to do with the "social pressure to respond quickly" to either calls or messages.
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