Patent ID: 8301108

Claim:
A safety control system for vehicles, including: a communication device having at least one of an input accessible from within the vehicle and at least one output communicated within the vehicle; at least one sensor operable to sense at least one condition related to vehicle operation; and a controller communicated with the sensor and the communication device, the controller prevents said at least one output from being provided to the driver in the original format of said at least one output and provides said at least one output to the driver in a different format, and wherein the controller controls when at least one input and at least one output are provided to the driver so that prior to permitting the driver to access said input or prior to providing an output from the communication device to the driver, the controller determines whether said at least one condition is within a threshold and permits the driver to access said input or provides said output to said driver only when said at least one condition is within the threshold.