There are laws against this in Australia, enforced with camera detection of smartphone use. The laws themselves are not perfect but if you can reduce smartphon

There are laws against this in Australia, enforced with camera detection of smartphone use. The laws themselves are not perfect but if you can reduce smartphone use down to the acceptable level of distraction in a car already, the problem would largely be solved. Android Auto is complete trash, but it offers some of those features: 1. Big, simplified interface with limited options (navigation, music, phone). 2. Voice controlled (sort of, it's garbage in a noisy car at highway speeds). This fails a lot in rural Australia as the phone networks don't have 100% coverage. 3. Easy voice call answering. This is largely solved. 4. Easy text message creation. This is largely a complete joke as the voice recognition turns your semi-shouted reply into garbage, slowly reads it back to you so you can correct it etc. It's bad and distracting in it's own way. 5. Easy playlist finding for music. Largely solved. 6. Masking other content. Distractions like facebook and instagram should just be hidden - you don't need what makes up 90% of those feeds while you are driving. Facebook messenger maybe. Having said that, I mount my phone on the dash when driving any kind of distance and the car then becomes a sort of mobile office. I can answer the phone, try to answer SMS messages, listen to music and navigate mostly with voice control and without having to remove my eyes from the road any more than the speedometer / radio in the car usually distracts a driver. Answering a technical question while driving is kind of distracting though, so I avoid those phone calls or ask the caller to wait until I can stop and answer properly. You can't regulate this, you can just educate people. It's doable if the limited interface of something like Android Auto was made more functional. edit: Remind people they don't need to be 100% available 24/7. It's OK to go offline for a while.