New Development – Sensors & Cameras – Cars
Most of the automobile crashes that occur are the result of human errors. New developments are underway by researchers at Cornell and Stanford universities and while several cars tend to have sensors and cameras which watch line markings as well as surrounding vehicles, the new development would now be using cameras within the car in order to monitor the driver to predicting boneheaded driving with technology.
Computers tend to learn, in correlating certain head and body movements with future driving schemes. On testing later with different drivers, the technology predicted accurately, the driving schemes 77.4% of the time. A turn or a change in a lane, on an average was anticipated more than 3.5 seconds prior to its occurrence.
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Alteration/Modification Essential
With subtle movement of the head and body, could indicate when a driver is about to turn or change lanes in next few seconds. Combined with the data from the sensors outside the car together with the information on the head and body movement, computers can indicate when a driver is going to make a dangerous move.
For instance, turning left in front of an oncoming vehicle. The driver can then be cautioned that he could be due for a crash. The system could also utilise the GPS data in warning drivers who tend to turn and are about to make a wrong move at that point of time. In order to develop the system, Cornell’s Ashutosh Saxena together with his colleagues recorded video of 10 drivers combining them with video looking forward from their cars as they drove.
Recording and analysis of around 1,200 miles of city and highway driving over two months was done. According to researchers, more alterations and modification is essential. At times, face tracking system could be thrown off by passing shadows and drivers interacting with passengers could confuse the system.
Sensors to be Added to Steering Wheel/Pedals
Some of the driving situations such as turning from a `turn only lane’ do not always include same physical signals. The capabilities of eye tracking together with additional enhanced cameras could be included for greater accuracy.
Sensors could be added to the steering wheel as well as pedals to pick up driver’s movements. According to Saxena, presently this technology is in its initial stage though the researchers are in active discussions with automakers.
Hopefully, this could make some difference in the automobile crash which could be dangerous to the individuals and the vehicle resulting in great loss. With this new development, several could speculate on a safe driving with reduction in rash driving that could be endangering various lives in the near future. This new technology can now predict rash driving errors with the promise of new engineering combined with improvement by Cornell and Stanford University’s researchers.
