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The Car That Knows When You'll Get In an Accident Before You Do
aurtherdent2000 sends word about a system designed to monitor drivers to determine when they're about to do something wrong. "I'm behind the wheel of the car of the future. It's a gray Toyota Camry, but it has a camera pointed at me from the corner of the windshield recording my every eye movement, a GPS tracker, an outside-facing camera and a speed logger. It sees everything I'm doing so it can predict what I'm going to do behind the wheel seconds before I do it. So when my eyes glance to the left, it could warn me there's a car between me and the exit I want to take. A future version of the software will know even more about me; the grad students developing what they’ve dubbed Brains4Cars plan to let drivers connect their fitness trackers to the car. If your health tracker 'knows' you haven’t gotten enough sleep, the car will be more alert to your nodding off."
My car (Toyota Avalon) already has a blind spot monitor. It shows a notification in my sideview mirrors when a car is in my blind spot and beeps and flashes if I put on my turn signal to change lanes and a vehicle is detected. Very neat.
A car that knows you'll get in an accident before you do?
"Honey, should we be worried that the car's CPU just ejected itself from the automobile?"
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
I live in Georgia (the US state), what is this "turn signal" you speak of? Also, how often does the fluid need to be changed?