Slow Down: iPhone App To Avoid Speeding Ticket

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Using your iPhone for texting or calling while driving will fetch you a ticket and hefty fine in most countries. However, not many people know that their iPhone can actually save them from a speeding ticket. Slow Down – an iPhone application developed by a Belgian organization OVK, Parents of Children Killed in Road Accidents, uses music as an indicator to keep you aware of your vehicle’s speed limits. The more you speed, the more the music slows down!

All you need to do is use the app to listen to your favorite music while driving. The app’s GPS capability keeps track of your driving speed and alters the pace of music accordingly. If you speed over 10 miles per hour, the music goes mute until you slow down to a legal speed again.

While the concept itself is unique and the app is offered free for a noble cause, it has several pitfalls. First, having GPS continuously on to detect the vehicle speed can kill your iPhone’s battery. Secondly, the speed limits in the app are not configurable and this limits the app’s usability across different driving conditions – highways, freeways and city roads etc. And last but not the least, not every body likes to know their vehicle speed in kilometers/ hour, especially in North America where miles/ hour is the norm.

The app is a must have for people (like me!) who love listening to music while driving. The Slow Down apps not only helps you avoid speeding tickets, it’s also a great advocate for safe within-the-prescribed-limits driving. From whatever I’ve seen of the app till now, it works perfectly as prescribed. If the creators can offer customized speed settings and optimize the app’s performance to avoid draining the iPhone’s battery, I for one, won’t mind shelling out a dollar or two for a useful app such as Slow Down. Not to say, the app is free of charge. What about you?

Check out this video to see Slow Down app in action.