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Car that Detects Driver's Emotions Technology that will make your day worse!
Car that Detects Driver's Emotions New Scientist has a very interesting article about smart cars that can detects the driver's emotions, and act accordingly. Together with it being one of the ugliest cars I've ever seen (trust me, you'll see what I'm talking about once you've loaded the page), it has the potential of being one of the most irritating cars ever. Toyota and Sony have combined to get the car to learn your driving style, and detect deviations. It will then tell you to "Cheer up" if you're depressed, and to "Calm down" when you're cross. Can you imagine anything more patronising? When I'm depressed, the last think I want is an synthetic voice telling me to "Try and have a nice day" ... I'd just want to be left alone! Conversely when you're irritated, the thing that calms you down the least is someone telling you to relax!! Still, even though this particular implementation will be more anoying than anything else, I can see what they are getting at with the technology. I can picture a car in the future automatically injecting you with some harmless hormones, to put you back into optimal driving conditions. Until then, we'll have to do with water being squirted into our faces when we start falling asleep! | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Friday 19 October, 05:04 Reply