Japan provides solutions to prevent smartphone "driving" damage

On July 9, the first aides of non-Life Insurance Japan and SOMPO Group announced that the "driving while driving" solution developed by Action Intelligence and using smartphones to drive cars will go on sale in July.

A service is a service for an operator that restricts the operation of a smartphone that downloads dedicated applications in advance through dedicated devices. There is also an optional feature that detects smartphones that do not download dedicated applications, notifies the running administrator, and suppresses employees from using personally owned smartphones.

The operating administrator can monitor the driver's location information and smartphone usage through a dedicated site, as well as the ability to report and sound alarms, so each driver can be managed.

The revised Road Traffic Law, which was implemented in December 2019, increased the punishment for "driving while driving", and enterprises and other departments began to seek countermeasures. SOMPO Holdings has conducted empirical experiments with a number of enterprises in order to carry out service for operators to prevent "simultaneous driving". As a result, the average number of traffic accidents in the eight companies involved in the experiment was 40%, and the average reduction of traffic violations was 36%. The imported enterprises could manage and operate properly and start selling.

The price is 2180 yen per car per year (excluding consumption tax), starting from 1000.