Description
This product monitors your teen’s quality of driving !!
For Android devices: This product stops Texting, Phone and Email usage with while teen is driving !!
The Cell Control is a hi-tech and yet economical way to keep your teen from texting and driving. And in a compact package that’s easy to install !
The Cell Control disables one phone/ phone #.
It quickly and instantly plugs into your vehicle’s on-board diagnostics connector (OBD-II) port below the dashboard (on most 1996 and later vehicles). When the vehicle begins moving, the phone(s) are blocked from texting, making phone calls, emailing, web surfing, gaming and receiving distracting phone calls.
If the driver attempts to remove the cell CONTROL module, the administrator will be notified immediately and parents can impose possible grounding for the teen driver.
Personalized…Backseat Driving from the Couch
The product is Customizable: You control what your teen can and cannot use while driving. You can log onto a website 24/7 to how control how the phone is used: allow calls, no calls, only calls through hands free. You even get to choose what applications are accessible (navigation, music, etc…).
Additional Features:
• For emergencies, 911 can be dialed at any time, even when the vehicle is moving.
• Reports available that let you see mileage, speed and phone usage.
• Can be set up so that the passengers in the vehicle can use their phones as usual.
• Built to be tamper resistant. If the driver attempts to disable or remove it, an alert is created.
• It works regardless of vehicle location, wireless access, or GPS signal.
Texting while driving is an epidemic
•The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found there are about 11 teenage deaths every day related to texting while driving.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistics are scary:
•Teens read or send text messages once a trip – 26 times more often than their parents think they do.
•80% of young drivers think that texting makes no difference to their driving performance.
•68% of young drivers 18 to 20 are willing to answer incoming phone calls on some, most, or all driving trips.
•11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash.
Easy to start using:
(Video of this available at bottom of webpage)
1) The cellCONTROL device is plugged into a vehicle’s OBD-II port. Installed in all vehicles sold in the U.S. since 1996, OBD-II ports are used to connect directly to the vehicle’s onboard computer system. (Typically, service technicians use the OBD-II port to read the vehicle’s computer systems to check for any issues or system messages.
2) Next, the cellCONTROL app is downloaded onto the teen’s cell phone.
3) Lastly, parents activate their cellCONTROL online and set up an account. Scosche offers a free account that allows one phone number to be protected.
Technically, how it works:
The product is designed to use your vehicle’s built-in computer to prevent drivers from performing any tasks manually with their cell phones while their vehicle is in motion. This includes phone calls, emails, text messages, music, and applications. With the cellCONTROL in use, drivers are required to use a handsfree device in order to complete any of these tasks; any attempts to use the device with your hands is blocked.
The CellControl works with all Bluetooth-enabled cell phones wirelessly tied to the OBD-II transmitter. Nearly all phone functionality is blocked via Bluetooth when the car is in motion. Software is installed on the mobile device, it prevents the user from completely disabling the Bluetooth connection. The patented Cellcontrol technology uses the Bluetooth connection, but doesn’t occupy a Bluetooth profile, allowing cellCONTROL users to use their Bluetooth headsets or handsfree vehicle systems without any issues.
Video of product in use:
Create good habits for your teen:
After using the cellCONTROL for awhile, teens will being not even trying to reach for the phone to read new texts or emails. The cellCONTROL trains them to know all I would get is a black screen. It’ll make them a safer and more attentive driver.