Car Companies Sharpen Focus on Curbing Distracted Driving

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Some cars will soon include sensors meant to track drivers' fatigue by monitoring steering patterns and how often a vehicle drifts out of its lane

Car companies are stepping up efforts to tackle the longtime problem of distracted driving by installing cameras and other monitoring technology in vehicles to detect when a driver’s attention wanders from the road.

Volvo Cars said it would start rolling out new eye-tracking devices across its lineup over the next few years, featuring cameras in cockpits to monitor motorists’ gazes. The system would send an alert or even limit a car’s speed whenever its driver’s eyes are averted for too long.

 

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Goddamn right it’s unnerving not to mention a sign of just how far these creeps’ lust for data and information concerning everything about you will go

Where I live, my gaze is focused on the roads trying to dodge potholes and rough pavement.

Put dark sunglasses on

Who are the car companies selling cars to? Government or paying customers?

It is simple. Put a phone jammer in steering. Make a phone place on side drawer with holes to listen bell. Driver should only be able to use phone either leaving the driving seat or switching off the car. S/He will be forced to respond a phone by taking car to ramp. No other way.

The more people resist, the long it takes before we give them UFO technology.

MedStudentUnderThreat DoctorsUnderOppression

And police should never get ability to see phones after pulling somebody over. Ever. Anybody pushing for the that is dangerously naive.

Electronic watchdog.

that's the wrong approach ... instead they should focus on safety systems, which prevent crashes. Machines are more reliable than people. 🤦‍♂️

Don't know why the govt doesn't just go ahead a implant a chip in our noses at birth and get it over with Total Recall

My 2017 Honda CR-V has this (got it for under $30k). Not a new or expensive technology.

Or, we could decide as a nation to wean ourselves from these deadly pollution machines, and opt for walkable communities. Nah, let’s sacrifice more humans on the altar of cup holders, leather seats, and trim packages.

Add in detecting when the driver welds their butt in the Left lane and I'm sold

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