Product design question

As a PM at Apple, how would you reduce accidents with smartphones?

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What this question tests

Product design addressing a safety-critical behavioral problem, distracted use, balancing safety intervention against user friction.

Clarify scope: likely distracted-driving or distracted-walking incidents, the most well-documented smartphone-related accident categories.
Segment driving, higher severity, versus walking, higher frequency, and pick where to focus first, likely driving given severity.
Propose a concrete intervention: enhanced Do Not Disturb While Driving with more reliable motion or CarPlay detection, on by default with a low-friction passenger override.
Address the trade-off: overly aggressive interventions get disabled by users, so minimize false positives like misdetecting a passenger as a driver.
Define success as reduced phone-related accident reports correlated with feature adoption, and opt-out rate as a friction guardrail.

Segments driving versus walking and picks the higher-severity case, rather than a vague 'make phones safer.'
Explicitly addresses the false-positive and opt-out risk, since overly strict features get disabled.
Names both a safety outcome metric and a user-friction guardrail.

Proposing something extreme like locking the phone on any motion, ignoring passengers and creating false positives.
Not naming a way to measure real-world safety impact, leaving the feature's value unproven.

How would you distinguish a driver from a passenger reliably?
How would you get users to keep this feature enabled rather than turning it off?