Slashdot Mirror
New Facial Recognition Software May Detect Looming Road Rage
cartechboy writes "Well, since we have license plate readers tracking drivers, and GPS breaking down we're you're headed — its probably time for someone to know what mood you're in when you're driving. (Quick hint: often not a good one). Researchers at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have prototyped a dashboard camera that tracks facial movements and expressions to read a person's emotions while behind the wheel. The team has partnered with PSA Peugeot Citroën to create a version for actual cars to determine when drivers are angry — and have high potential for road rage. One challenge for the technology has been the wide range of expressions drivers have when they're pissed. Some people smile, for example. (Maybe as they raise their middle finger.) The engineers are working on future revs to be able to tell when drivers are fatigued or even just distracted." The detection part sounds interesting; coupled with remote kill-switches that some government agencies want, and ever deeper fly-by-wire technologies, it's sounds downright dystopian, though.
...than it is now.
No, you do not have an inalienable right to act out your aggressions on a publicly-funded highway.
First the webcam on the laptop, next the dashcam on the hoopty. Do not want.
Man, technology that tells me how to be gets me so angry I'd probably rip the damn iPhone out its socket and throw it out the window.
And that actually would settle me back down.
At least until I got a ticket for littering.
I presume if someone is listening to death-metal music his expression could look angry. Sure, kill his engine...
And how are they going to ensure that power steering and brakes still operate without the engine running? Woopsie.
Great, now they're going to use a road rage kill-switch on my vehicle just because I want to sing along with my Scandinavian heavy metal. And those women with natural angry b***h faces will never get anywhere...
what about people who have religious head coverings?
what about false positives?
whats being done once they have determined the person behind the wheel is feeling a little ragey? what happens if they are having a bad day before they get in the car?
why dont they just work on self driving cars to eliminate the problem rather than address the symptoms of the problem?
Why don't you take a stresstab and lie down for awhile.
I'll just slow the car down in the meantime.
Kill switches for when drivers get angry? If you thought gridlock was bad now, just wait until 50 angry stalled drivers are in front of you.
Adidas To Bring Back Sneakernet
It can't be all that difficult.
Take this sig and smoke it.
Rage isn't the issue, it's acting on that rage with violence.
Violent road ragers should be executed. To me it's sort of like those assholes who riot over sporting events. Fuck 'em, if you're that stupid you deserve a good beating by a cop with a baton, or if you throw a brick or something a bullet in the head.
... that's my "O face". Siri, hand me a tissue.
http://i.imgur.com/I0KxVrG.jpg
So someone gets cut off. They get mad. Then the system auto-controlls or shuts the car down.
Then the person gets even madder.
And as they cannot even chase the original cause will then just open up on the traffic flow in general.
I don't see this fixing anything unless it autoinjects some nice drugs.
"and GPS breaking down we're you're headed "
equate to:
"and GPS breaking down we are you are headed "
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
and GPS breaking down we're you're headed
If they're as reliable as Slashdot's automated grammar screening I don't have much faith in the technology
I find it sad that when we can not make some follow law, or common sense, we seek technology to stop them from rampage, and force everyone else to live with that technology.
This seems to be the coming trend...
As example, in some places in eu, there is pressure to have exhalation test in the car for traces of alcohol, i think it is called alcolock...
Problem is, not being able to fallow common sense (law) to not drive intoxicated is a spiritual handicap. Alcolock on the car is spiritual prothesis. So lobby has success, whenever i start the car in the future, i have to put a prosthetic device in my mouth.
If this thing in the article makes it, I will be constantly monitored, because of the deeds of some minority.
I find this disturbing. Now, I do not like people very much, and have low levels of sympathy for my fellow humans.
Personally, I would rather see this minority, who is the target of these devices, to be identified, and executed by the side of the road.
In that is two flies in one hit: we remove the morons, and do not litter the car with prosthetic devices..
In the future there will be professional drivers and they won't let assholes with rage issues ruin our roads. Wait, fuck, that's utopian future...
Jee, hyperbole much? Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that there will be any dystopian government interaction. That was your own shitty opinion piece. Its the same crap the article postulates:
Stop it. Please. Those are some of the most idiotic question ever asked. The car wont do anything as this wont be installed in them. Why not? Simple: there are no answers for any of those silly questions that would avoid a legal minefield.
Examples:
Driver is angry and car detects it. So the car notifies the authorities.
- Authorities don't care enough about some butthurt driver to stop looking for speeders which make the county/city/town money. Besides after the 1000th notification of road rage in the first ten minutes of their highway patrol shift they will just turn the damn computer off.
Driver is angry and car detects it. So the car applies the brakes......
- Causing the driver to lose control or a rear end collision. Car manufacturer is sued into oblivion. Camera recalled.
Driver is angry and car detects it. So the car switches the radio to soothing music....
- Which distracts the driver causing an accident. Or the driver can blame a road rage accident on the sudden blast of Michael Bolton which startled them while enjoying a beautiful morning on the highway in bumper to bumper traffic. Car manufacturer is sued into oblivion. Camera recalled.
Not so serious but:
Driver is angry and car detects it. So the car tells a knock knock joke....
Driver is offended by joke along with a concerned watchdog group. Public outrage ensues. Camera recalled.
What's the appropriate response?
None. People will get angry. Its better to just let them scream or pound the steering wheel and let it out and then have a laugh. If it results in an accident and the drivers anger can be directly linked to the accident then let the courts decide the appropriate punishment.
Next thing you know your TV will detect when you're raging and change the channel.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
with a permanent resting bitchface?
defeats all the facial recognition software, which already has a high failure rate.
Basically, if it worked in WW II or in Korea, it still works.
Welcome to Eastern Germany, Amerikka!
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
"GPS breaking down we are you are header" ?
parse error..
A solution in search of a problem. With driverless cars on the verge of being a reality, road rage will become a thing of the past.
Proverbs 21:19
This sounds like a good thing at first, but won't it just cause people to avoid those facial emotions and develop a poker face against their car?
If I wanted to live among the emotionless , I'd move to Japan.
If yelling "get off your F-ing phone and drive" a lot while driving qualifies as road rage, I could be in trouble with a system like this.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
It's already been tried, but it didn't work out so well.
Table-ized A.I.
Create something that tells another driver when he (or she) is an idiot. That's the real problem. I know I'm mad when someone merges onto a freeway at 30mph. I know I'm mad when someone cuts me off. I know I'm mad when someone is in a left turn lane and attempting to go straight. I know I'm mad when the other driver in any of these situations flips me off when I honk.
The problem is they don't know or don't care.
How about getting bad drivers off of the roads altogether. We all make mistakes here and there, but some people are very aggressive jerks and they need to go. They cause traffic problems, backups, accidents, and roadrage. I don't defend roadrage at all ever, but humans are humans. I get tense seeing people break the law and getting away with it. Almost anyone can be provoked into some kind of angry reaction, and some people unfortunately act on that anger. I would like to remove the root causes of the problem.
1) Better traffic enforcement. Cops who a) obey the laws, and b) ticket truly bad drivers.
2) Dashcams everywhere! Catch these idiots in the act and get them off of the roads. Stiffer penalties for professional drivers.
3) Better govt. In my area (NE USA suburbs) there are traffic lights which were obviously programmed by hamsters. They turn red causing major backups when there are no cars waiting on the side street. I've heard this is intentional. Morons.
Wouldn't it be easier to monitor accelerator and brake usage for harshness? The angrier you are, the less smoothly you use the pedals and thus the angrier you are (coarse vs fine motions) and the more likely you are to have an accident.
OK, I have that sort of face. Blame it on genes or too much time indoors, but when I'm not thinking about anything in particular -- happy even -- I look angry.
I was with a group of friends once, enjoying the beach, when someone asked me why I looked so angry.
I was sitting at a Chuck E. Cheesy watching my daughter once, and some other parent said, "Buddy, you gotta take it easy."
Said daughter drew a picture of me once. I looked like I was scowling. Why, kid? That's the way you always look, Daddy.
So I got that face that scares kids, makes others think I'm about to start a fight... This won't go over well.
That happens to me every time my face is half covered in blood and I pick up a rocket launcher.
This tech should be used to make a nice car HUD. HUD needs a doom guy's face in the middle of it, of course! The way he constantly snoops on the left and right would entice the driver to pay about his surroundings. Funny stuff like the pissed off face (has left and right looking variants) with hurt groan would happen when you have bumps on the road and mild collisions, and two nice screams are built-in that can be played for driver death.
...would like to ask you a few questions.
It would be cool if this technology could be coupled with exterior signs on the car. If I'm pissed, it would be great if the car could save me the trouble of giving the finger to the people around me, and just show a giant middle finger signal to the motorists around me.
Easy Online Role Playing Campaign Management
Just wait . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most actual humans are incapable of accurately reading facial expressions in even slightly stressful situations. This article is dumb as hell
There was a British TV show. A Detective Inspector investigated an auto accident on the A4. The driver who "started" the accident was seen screaming/yelling and gesturing at children talking his picture in a passing car. The DI thought the man went into road rage and caused the accident on purpose. A thorough investigation revealed an active bee colony in the area. One of the bees got into the man's car and was trying to sting him; the man was trying to defend himself against the attack, lost control of his car and rammed another driver. The man wasn't suffering from road rage as the DI initially suspected but was trying to get rid of the attacking bee.
When people are labelled as "Road Ragers", they are instantly convicted and do not have the "innocent until proven guilty" with the Coppers.
Just wear a happy mask. Might also help to get out of speeding tickets if the speed camera shows your car was driven by Ronald Reagan at the time.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
All servers. Coming I see the Same Are about 7000/5
And tell them all where they can shove their Big Brother crap
That's my answer to this technology.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" .
When you are too angry, your car will die, troopers will fast-rope onto it from their ornithopter, hit you with sick sticks and halo you while your fluids fly from every orifice... That is, if the AdWords for the latest hypnotic from Pfizer flashing across your windshield didn't calm you down first.
Do know when robot drivers will officially be on the road, but isn't this a little late?
That would make many people unable to get to their jobs. As much as I would like to live within walking (or better biking) distance from work, I can't afford it. Many people have to commute greater than ten miles just to get to work here, and not having a car would be the end of their careers. (Where I live we don't have public transit aside from cabs and car pooling.)
If you think removing bad drivers from the road will fix people getting road rage, go right ahead. I'll be waiting for when the newly-unemployed-people-with-anger-management-issues decide to show you their appreciation for your efforts.
Just wear your happy face mask.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Jas3T_yeCqs/TO6-5PIcdDI/AAAAAAAACJQ/PHmd50f2kpY/s1600/SmileyMaskDemoSm.jpg
What is likely to be the accuracy of this system? Even a 99% accurate system would be fairly useless. Say you get 1 rager per day out of 100 000 drivers. Over 100 days (about 3 months), it will properly flag 99 people and miss one. But during the same period would flag 1000 people per day who aren't raging or dangerous.
It's the same every time someone says they can "detect" a rare event out of a completely random sample, whether it is mass screening for rare diseases or conditions, terrorists or road rage. Unless your screening method is extraordinarily accurate, the sheer number of individuals examined by the system will cause a significant number of false positives.
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
Seriously, with all the self absorbed drivers on the road these days all trying to get to the same place at the same time, I want the Sweet Tooth options on my next car. Cut me off?!?! It's the flaming ice cream buddy!
With fewer officers on the highways and all the dumb ass maneuvers that people pull, it still seems incomprehensible that people don't get why "road rage" exists. I'm all for free choice but acting like an asshole on the roads means you'll probably get an asshole response. It's just human nature. Oh and Fred Rogers is still dead.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
-- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
She seems to be grimacing deliberately. What is that supposed to show? Where's the ground truth of how much stress she is actually under?
Are these cameras IN the car? Or they going to be put up alone all the roads? Or just stop lights?
I would have to stop listening to football on the radio as I drive, the look on my face when someone score on my team would set off the alarm.
How about working on ways to prevent people from texting while driving? or talking on the phone, that is much more dangerous then a few people who kill people just because they are mad.
and watch the stress get blown away ...
Fritz Lieber to the rescue, once again. Driver's masks! Face paint, makeup, erasable "tattoos", projections on the lower face, novelty glasses, shades, animatronic faces, shoulder parrots. And never mind the big brother behind the dashboard noticing your lack of facile facial enthusiasm during the patriotic war infomercial newscast.
Some people smile, for example.
This.
Many people suffering from road rage are bat-shit crazy. I've seen people trying to cause accidents. And I've nearly been run off the road a few times by them myself. Overwhelmingly, they are laughing or have a silly grin on their face. Perhaps because they thought they caused (or nearly caused) someone else some grief.
On the other hand, I recall an interesting incident from some years ago. I was in heavy traffic on an on ramp merging onto the freeway at a crawl. Traffic was (generally) alternating between ramp and freeway, every other car. I pulled in front of a dump truck. In my rear view mirror, I watched the guy behind me gun his SUV and try to make it between the dump truck and a jersey barrier. Not enough room, he got caught between the two. Then, he gunned his engine and squeezed through, tearing the hell out of his truck. So I'm watching him (behind me now) in my rear view mirror, grinning because he had just screwed the dump truck out of one position on the freeway. Sheet metal on what was (a few moments ago) a nice truck, hanging off the sides.
Have gnu, will travel.
demand a jury trail and in the case push any case of an system that can read some of being off start with voice recognition
I suggest that the car's outside color changes according to the driver's mood.
Sleepy driver = night blue
...
Nervous driver = pulsing bright red
Relax driver = apple green with dark green waves
Raging driver = blood red with yellow dots
Hey,
Sorry about your friend's bro, but that doesn't mean any government should force anyone to put this in your car (hypothetically in future). They say driving is a privilege, not a right. Well, that privilege comes with responsibility. If you can't handle the responsibility, stay off the road. This is just another way for the government to invade your 4th Amendment, and to arrest you. Meanwhile, the real criminals are making off with your money.
Being that you tied emotion with your opinion, you lost the point of using logic. Emotion says this is a good idea, logic disagrees. The Constitution wasn't written for emotional cases, it was designed to protect you from your government doing exactly this.
If Europe wants this crap, they can have it! Leave my people out of it!