E-Max Converts Mobile Text Messages to Voice

I received an email today promoting a service that would discourage drivers from texting and emailing from cell phones while on the road by delivering and sending important messages via voice instead.

It's called E-Max from Virtual Management, the providers of E.V.A. (Electronic Virtual Assistant). For $20 a month, E-Max allows subscribers to highlight important contacts so when they send a text message or email, the subscribers receive dictated versions via cell phone. And recipients can respond via voice as well; their replies are sent in a voice attachment via email. "E-Max makes dangerous 'car-texting' obsolete since replies are sent immediately via cell and users can stay focused on the road!" the note read.

Texting and emailing while driving is crazy, but I think we've learned by now that talking and dialing on cell phones, Bluetooth or no Bluetooth, is pretty darn distracting while driving, too. And in lots of states it's as illegal as texting. Now I know this doesn't stop many of us from doing it. A service that stops people from texting and emailing while driving is good, but we can't call it safe, either.