Trinity-Noble's Guardian Angel mentioned in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Status Report on Cell Phone Distraction. Featured in the article on "High-Tech Options To Curb Distraction". You can download the report Here.

Skybloc is now known as Guardian Angel MP (Mobile Platform). Insurance Institute for Higway Safety to begin testing our product within the next two weeks. Release date is expected to be early Spring.

Trinity-Noble has just petitioned the FCC for a rule change in order to legally sell and market our technology in hopes of saving lives. Our legal counsel, Jeremy Chalmers, has done a phenomenal job in presenting our argument as to why we should be allowed—constitutionally—to protect our children and employees from the dangerous practice of texting/talking while driving.

We just received word that we have been invited to attend the DoT summit on Distracted Driving, Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

The letter below was sent to Time Magazine's editor in response to the article in their August 24th issue: Distracted Driving: Should Talking, Texting Be Banned?

Dear Time,

Having had patented technology for the prevention of cell phone related distraction available since 2001, I found your article regarding Distracted Driving (August 24) extremely frustrating since you listed several “solutions” which are new to market and easily defeatable by any cell phone-addicted teenager or adult. My company’s technology jams only the driver’s cell phone as long as the vehicle (car, bus, truck, train) is in motion and traveling above 10 MPH. The only thing preventing our technology from being legally sold to the public is an arcane FCC law (statute 333 of the 1934 Communications Act) and the cell phone industry (CTIA). I found your article equally frustrating in that it listed Aegis Mobility as having a viable, preventative solution . Aegis Mobility, strangely enough, is closely affiliated with the National Safety Council (by way of Dave Teater, a board member and investor of Aegis and Director of Transportation Initiatives at the NSC who stands to earn big bucks should NHTSA choose to make his technology a safety standard) who is currently receiving grant money from the CTIA for public education around the dangers of texting and driving. The CTIA supports a ban on texting as it would not impact their revenue streams (most cell phone plans have unlimited texting options so they’re already getting their money). Their support of texting bans and their throwing of money at the National Safety Council is a distracting measure to take attention off of the equally dangerous practice of talking on the phone while driving. The cell phone carriers get nearly 40% of their annual revenue from calls made by drivers in transit. Our technology would cut into their revenue hence their ignoring our petitions, letters, calls, e-mails. The only certain preventative technology to defeat a driver’s attempt to surf the web, phone a friend, send a text or e-mail is to render the driver’s cell phone useless as long as the driver is driving. Bans don’t work, cell phone carrier-provided software is easily defeated. The only solution is jamming and our politicians in Washington need to realize this and soon before more tragedies on our nation’s roads and rails occur.

Best regards,
Joe Brennan
President, Trinity-Noble

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a September summit to address the dangers of text-messaging and other distractions behind the wheel. In late September, senior transportation officials, elected officials, safety advocates, law enforcement representatives and academics will convene in Washington, DC to discuss ideas about how to combat distracted driving.

“If it were up to me, I would ban drivers from texting, but unfortunately, laws aren’t always enough,” said Sec. LaHood. “We’ve learned from past safety awareness campaigns that it takes a coordinated strategy combining education and enforcement to get results. That’s why this meeting with experienced officials, experts and law enforcement will be such a crucial first step in our efforts to put an end to distracted driving.”

A number of deadly accidents involving text messaging behind the wheel have called attention to the dangerous problem of distracted driving. Last year, a commuter train crash in California involving an operator who was texting on a cell phone killed 25 people and injured 135 others. In another incident, a Florida truck driver admitted to texting moments before a collision with a school bus that killed a student. In yet another, only a few weeks ago, a 17-year-old high school student from Peoria, Illinois was killed when she drove off the road while texting with friends.

Added Secretary LaHood, “The bottom line is, distracted driving is dangerous driving. Following next month’s summit, I plan to announce a list of concrete steps we will take to make drivers think twice about taking their eyes off the road for any reason.”