Texting while driving isn’t safe, and there have been plenty of examples this year alone of what can happen if you continue to do it, Tecca reports. In an effort to promote its “It Can Wait” campaign against texting behind the wheel, AT&T held a hackathon earlier this month where programmers were tasked with creating a mobile app to discourage the practice. Now the company has picked Rode Dog, created 11-year-old Victoria Walker, as the winner and awarded her $20,000. Walker worked on the app with David Grau, a designer from interactive agency WLDG who she met at the two-day event in Los Angeles. The sixth-grader came up with the concept for Rode Dog, which allows members of its users’ “packs” to see if they’re texting while driving and, if they are, send them annoying barking sounds until they stop. The concept was inspired by listening to her family’s three dogs barking, something she said was enough to get anyone to stop what they were doing…
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