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Digital Cameras Help Alert Sleepy Drivers

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-car-do-the-driving dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting story on how digital cameras are being mounted in cars to watch the eye movements of drivers to make sure that they are awake. The cars include two cameras, one watching the road and one watching the driver. If there is something on the road that is a danger and the driver doesn't see, the car alerts the driver. Pretty neat technology."

2 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. Re:French car by Seumas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unfortunately, being a French car, it constantly yields to every other car on the road at every intersection, even when it doesn't need to.

  2. Kids department, 2nd floor please by karnat10 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If there is something on the road that is a danger and the driver doesn't see, the car alerts the driver.

    What's newsworthy about that? Everyone can mount cameras in his car and connect them to motion sensors, or whatever. And nobody can build a machine able to determine what's dangerous and what isn't. The only machine which can do that is human. And that ain't gonna change the next fifty years or so.

    Now listen, editors. Spare us bullshit like that. The /. crowd wants news for nerds, not news for kids and suits.