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The Car That Knows When You'll Get In an Accident Before You Do

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-eyes-on-the-road-your-hands-upon-the-wheel dept.

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."

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  1. Do not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I will never use a product that monitors me with a camera.

    (Yes I put tape over my laptop's camera, and no I don't own a smart phone.)

  2. Oh Joy. by thesupraman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And no doubt when the insurance investigators get access to the data as part of the fine-print on your contract, and decide you were not doing exactly what they believe is correct in a given situation, then you will be at fault.

    Let alone once the police decide that data is theirs also.

    Let the fun times roll.