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Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention
cartechboy writes "Distracted driving is a large issue, and it's getting worse as we become more entangled with our technology. To help combat this growing problem Volvo is showing off new technology that allows the car to sense when a driver is tired or not paying attention. The system bathes the driver in infrared light that can pick up the driver's position and eye movements. If the driver becomes inattentive or begins to drift off to sleep, it will alert you. Besides the safety aspect of this system, it will also be able to recognize the person sitting behind the wheel, allowing the car to tailor itself to that person's stored preferences. Further, it will be able to adjust the vehicle's exterior lighting in the direction the driver is looking based on the detected eye movement. Volvo's quick to note the system can't photograph the driver. People, the future is coming, and your vehicle is going to be watching you."
Even rear view cameras are still incredibly pricey add ons for most cars. I doubt much of this will be forced on us ( though with the current administration "knowing best" for how I should spend my money, who know)
You will be watching your car !
Remember kids, Ford owns Volvo (and Jaguar, and some others). So, when you hear "don't worry it won't photograph you", just keep that in mind.
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Why would you think the UK is the only country that might make use of this?
The system bathes the driver in infrared light
Anyone else feels like this is going to be a strain on our eyes?
Get ready kids... Car are about to become extremely annoying.
I'll bet it works as well as automatic headlights and automatic windshield wipers. Hell, even gas tank level sensors still suck. Engineers may design something that works, but by the time it makes it into a production vehicle it's been hacked up and cheapened and built out of flimsy plastic components to the point of being useless.
Wake me up when my vehicles can drive themselves.
Remember kids, Ford owns Volvo (and Jaguar, and some others)
That was true about a decade ago. Ford sold Volvo to a Chinese company is 2010 and sold Jaguar to an Indian company in 2008.
So, when you hear "don't worry it won't photograph you", just keep that in mind.
Keep what in mind, then? That they used to own Volvo and Jaguar? I'm not sure how that is relevant.
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They're not going to collect it
They won't be sending out signals to the police
They won't be sending out data to your insurance companies
They won't be collecting data for accident coverage
They won't be storing the data and combining it in other databases (ohh you just went to the gym? You just came back from your mistress's place and were tired?)
They won't be selling it to your health insurance provider (xx was driving tired for extended periods of time, must have some disease, drop coverage immediately)
Sorry, there's too many reasons why not to get it and very little reason to get it.
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Considering that my 1998 Volvo V70 wagon (versatile) should last me another 20 years, and I'll be 73 then, this will come in handy when I'm ready to buy again. And if that dies, I still have my 2001 S60 to putz around in.
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Wives and girlfriends been making use of this technology for millennia.
Bull.
Does your car fail to start if you don't buckle your seat belt?
Does your car not work if your tail light goes out or your turn signal fails?
If you disable your front collision avoidance system does your car not work?
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How many times are you going to post the same nonsense?
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Huh? There is nothing new about this, quite a few manufacturers have this technology in place already.
“If the driver becomes inattentive or begins to drift off to sleep, it will alert you.”
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Being that I'm not a completely narcissistic imbecile, paying attention while driving is not an issue I have; hell, sometimes it feels like I'm the only one on the road who actually understands that the task of operating 2 tons of steel and rubber at high speeds should be the driver's primary focus. Not to say that I haven't fucked up, but I at least bothered to learn from my mistakes. Plus, I'm not so stupid/selfish/what-have-you that I would ignore fatigue and risk the lives of everyone around me by not pulling over to rest when necessary.
That said - is there some way I can point this system at all the other cars on the road? I would find it far more useful to know which other drivers are not paying attention/about to fall asleep/whatever, than to have a Big Brother system to tell me shit about myself I should already know.
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If so, then SOLD!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for no longer linking to greencarreports.com in every single item you post.
That has to be one of the worst, fallacious "news" sites I've ever seen.
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This isn't new...
Why does everyone think that everything can be solved with technology? Oh, right, it's easier to sell than telling everyone they mostly suck at something and that they need to get better at it than, "here's a magic $product that will fix all your problems."
The problem is not technology, the problem is not our gadgets,; the problem is our collective attitude about driving and (lack of) training. Requirements to obtain (and retain) a driver's license in some countries would be shocking to most people in North America. Our standards are pathetic and woefully inadequate. Oh, you can follow some basic instructions that a chimp could do for 15 minutes? Here, now you can drive anything outside of a big rig, motorcycle or bus (unless it's an RV, because apparently, having fewer passengers magically turns it into an agile sports sedan... or something), including hauling your big-ass 5th wheel.
That shit doesn't fly in places where driving is taken seriously. Just Google "driving license in [European country]" and wait for your jaw to drop.
If we actually trained people to have vehicular and situational awareness, they would realize that it's a bad idea to be dicking around with their gizmos while operating a multi-ton projectile around hundreds of other multi-ton projectiles, pedestrians, cyclists and municipal structures... and we wouldn't be trying to develop bullshit tech like this or legislating laws ripe for abuse.
That kind of training takes years of practice, not 15 minutes in a mostly controlled situation. But you can't put that in a box and slap on a price sticker.
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What electrical issues? None of those affect driveability.
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True enough. But when the car company's terrible media center software causes a buffer overflow in the memory shared by this system and it the sensor to think that I'm now my wife and it will move the seat to far forward and I won't be able to properly drive the car. CRASH!
Think that isn't possible, clearly you haven't driven a Ford built in the last few years. My uncle bought a new Ford Torus SHO and when you pushed a certain sequence of buttons on the radio while the car was at a red light (i.e. in 1st gear and not moving) the car would shift to reverse without indication. The only way to tell it had happened was to see that the backup cam was suddenly displaying on the review mirror. To get back out of reverse you had to put the car in neutral then back into first. Needless to say my uncle returned that car and now has an Audi.
I don't think I'm going to be buying a car with one of these new infotainment systems until they start physically separating them from the drive by wire systems.
And when I'm horny will it drive to a Motel 6 and try to fuck me ?
That would be an OnStar extra for those who have it installed on 5 or more vehicles, "I need laid".
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From TFS and TFA:
The system bathes the driver in infrared light ...
Yet in both TFA photos, the light is drawn in blue.
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MY car will not have this feature. Not until hell freezes over and there is no way to own and drive a car without it. A lot, or even maybe all, new cars may have it, but NOT MY car.
I'm assuming there will be workarounds, right? Jailbraking your car? Buying a car with the feature to lower insurance rates, then disabling the feature?
Mine won't. And neither will my next car.
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(remember the $5 manufacturing cost they saved on each Pinto?)
The Pinto was 40 years ago. You conveniently overlooked the money they spent correcting that problem, and the fact that the Pinto has been out of production for a long time. That error didn't last the full run of the Pinto, for that matter.
But no, let's go ahead and line up to bash the American company. Need I remind you what the Japanese cars were like in the 1970s? Toyotas were barely able to reach freeway speed. Hondas were too small for a large segment of Americans (ie, people more than 6' tall) to drive comfortably. Both had rust problems galore. But yet they improved. Now people speak fondly of their Japanese cars. In the 1970s nobody would have believed that Toyota and Honda could some day make competitive luxury cars, yet now we have Lexus and Acura.
And if we look to South Korea, the turn around is even more dramatic (at least with regards to how quickly it happened). Hyundai from the 80s and 90s were utter garbage. They probably never should have been allowed on American freeways but we let them on anyways. They weren't reliable, comfortable, or safe. Yet now Hyundai and Kia are very competent little cars.
But yet we keep bashing Ford for what happened 40 years ago. If we did that to the Japanese and Korean cars they would have gone bankrupt years ago.
In case you haven't noticed, Ford Fusion has beat Toyota Camry in initial quality, best midsize, and car of the year more than once and from multiple reviewers. But yet obviously it is more important to remind people about what Ford did when Nixon was president.
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Car senses driver texting.
disengages seat-belt lock, quick slam on the brakes and release, bouncing their face off the steering wheel.
Dash shows message "Put down the fucking phone and drive, asshole."
Well, they were focused slightly to the left before Johnny Dickbag replaced them with HID and pointed them and the identical fucking HID fog lamps straight ahead.
That would actually make perfect sense, insurance companies tend to give benefits to people exhibiting responsible behavior.
People exhibiting responsible behaviour have no need of a system to watch them and enforce rules. They would not drive when they felt very tired because it would be dangerous to do so. The only reason for the insurance companies to want this is because they are not sure that you are a responsible person.
The problem is with a system like this is that it has to never give a false positive. Even if one time in a million it gives a false positive there will be thousands of people every year who will suddenly be unable to use their car for no good reason. It seems unlikely that the system is that accurate unless its threshold is set so high it triggers on the drivers snoring.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say, will be irrelevant. Your cars data analysis can and will be used against you in a court of law,,,
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And yet not one hit on that behavior on Google. Weird.
Hasn't the S-Class had this for a couple of years already now? I seem to recall seeing something about it on Top-Gear.
May not have been an S-Class, it just seems to ring a bell since that series is usually first to get bleeding-edge stuff like this that finds it's way in to regular cars a few years later.
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When I was back there in college before the computer era, one of the undergrad engineering projects was to develop this kind of thing, and every year some fine solutions were developed, even without the use of digital electronics. Same for interlock systems that would test your reflexes/coordination for a couple of seconds and not allow the car to run if you were drunk, or having a stroke or something. But there was no commercial potential, because secretly, nobody wants to buy a car that will actually prevent him or her from driving when he is drunk or falling asleep or whatever, if he wants to drive.
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Does this possible future scenario bother any of you in the slightest? And what about other scenarios, if, say, your fridge decides you should go on a diet? :=)