The dangers of driving increases during microsleep. If travelling at 70mph, a six seconds sleep will have the car covering 200 meters. That's two football field size. When driving very fast, a second or less is what it takes between arriving your home safe and spending the next 18 months in the hospital. Driving safety is something the technology we have now continually try to improve. It's encouraging to see the drop in fatality rate between 1996 and 2006. I think every vehicle should have a LIDAR system, the same way we have the seatbelts. I know it may not be a cheap technology, but it'd help reduce the fatality on our roads.
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I agree! Maybe we can awake some more people here.
And LIDAR is slowly getting cheaper since the research costs are being halved every year by the sales. Soon, 1-2 models in the future it could be standard.
That would be a plus. A small megapixel camera is worth 1$ nowadays if bought in bulk. Also very good!
There is even a technology that can literally see around a corner. That, with LIDAR, will make an ultimate safety twin. Now blindspots in hairpin bends will no longer be a dangerous thing if a driver can "see" what's on the other end.
Yes. That is already stock on the Audi A8. It has cameras in the front bumper as to make it impossible to hit a cyclist when coming out of a narrow road. The car stops automatically when it has a "good view" and you can see it on the computer. If you want to accelerate it will hold the brake :)
It will hold the brake? Dang. I need that car! :)
Do you sometimes feel the urge to "trip" cyclists? :D
I will write one more, but not this week, about what the future technology could do to our driver lives.
Something like this, but without stopping:
More like waving a wand and the road is suddenly devoid of homicidal motorcycle stunts men wannabes weaving in and out of traffic at 70mph.
:)