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."

Comments

Do not want

[Anonymous Coward]

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.)

Re:Do not want

[Anonymous Coward]

3. Cops will look at the system as part of a routine check and will fine you.

Last week at approximately 11AM, there was a road block on this side road by Georgia State troopers. They were stopping everyone.

When I rolled my window down, I asked what is going on?

They told me that they were checking to see if people were wearing their seat belts and their licenses were not expired. He took my license looked at it and walked around the car. And then handed it back.

Now, electronic safety devices are not given away by manufacturers. That backup camera system and this will cost way more to the consumer than necessary. For an example, compare the OEM GPS systems with what you can buy on your own - this whole integrated in dash stuff making it cost more is bullshit. And having to take it to the dealer ($$$$) to update it?!

And we all know that when the warranty runs out on the electronics (cars are only 1 -3 years) they are going to break. And that means a trip to the dealer ($$$$) to fix a mandatory safety device.

The price of cars is getting ridiculous compared to wages as it is. My wife is shopping for a car and you know what the standard financing is now? 60 months! And some people go out to 72 and even 92months! All to keep the payments affordable. In the meantime, the finance companies are raking it in at the expense of us.

Not have a car? In the USA without having to live in an obscenely expensive part of town?

This country is set up to put us into debt - one way or another. And in the meantime, jobs are going overseas and are not being created fast enough here.

Oh Joy.

[thesupraman]

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.

Worrying Sign

[Jason Levine]

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?"