Jaguar Land Rover offers an approach that familiar from medical examinations of astronauts and athletes, monitor the emotional and physical condition of the driver. The driver's seat is integrated sensor suite, which allows to take into account the heart rate and respiratory rate. This information may come in handy at a time when the car should be switch from autopilot to manual control: Automatic should make sure that the driver is awake and active enough to take it over. In addition, monitoring of the driver allows to predict the critical phase of fatigue on long journeys. Too much excitement, on the contrary, it will be possible to extinguish the change in lighting or soothing music.
Emitted by the brain nerve impulses can tell a lot about the human condition, but read them fixed on the head sensors in everyday circumstances is not very convenient. NASA and Jaguar Land Rover offer enhanced capture nerve impulses by means of sensors on the steering wheel .
British engineers offer to equip the accelerator pedal feedback function - it will change the degree of resistance to pressing if the car quietly creeping in traffic or trying to exceed the permissible speed at the site. In addition, the vibration of the pedal can warn approaching vehicles or obstacles.
Jaguar Land Rover company's specialists are developing a system that will anticipate the intentions of the driver in handling the buttons on the touch screen. Following the driver's eyes and his gestures with the camera, the system will be necessary to press the button at a time when the hand of the driver will be even halfway to the touch screen. And to the man realized that the action is performed, the ultrasonic pulse will focus on the finger of the driver, creating a sense of contact with the surface of the screen. All these tricks are aimed at reducing the time of the interface - a person can be less distracted from the road, driving a car. Related Products :
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