SEATTLE: In the near future, your phone might be smart enough to know whether you are driving a car, or going along for the ride.
Anti-distraction software by a tech startup called Cellepathy would automatically go into a restrictive "driver mode" when a phone is within a moving vehicle. Online features such as texts, video, games and social media would be blocked, as well as some or all nonemergency telephone calls.
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