Surely all of us who enjoy an Apple Watch have a habit of glancing at the watch every time it rings or vibrates when we are driving. This process that can take less than a second it can put at risk not only our life, but also that of pedestrians or other vehicles that circulate near us. Distractions behind the wheel have always been one of the main causes of traffic accidents. Many users find it difficult not to look every time their device rings, depending on the type of notification you are, that for that we can customize the sounds of each application, but Apple wants that to change, at least while driving.
Apple wants to go a little further, it has just registered a patent that It would allow the Apple Watch to detect at all times the movement we make of the device to know that we are driving and enable, let's call it a restricted mode, in which only relevant notifications would be shown, such as calls from our VIP contacts and leaving the rest of calls, emails, notifications from instant messaging applications and others without sound. . In addition, when detecting that we are driving, the screen it wouldn't light up every time we wave our arm, something very annoying especially when we drive at night.
In the patent we can see how Apple would allow us to establish what type of notifications we want to receive when we are drivingBecause no matter how hard you try, watchOS can never know what is important to us and what is not. In this way, once we have configured the notifications that can affect our distraction and start driving, we would only receive these and not any other that can be the cause of a distraction in driving with catastrophic results.
