This piece of news was written by Joseph Curtis for the Daily Mail online newspaper on the 13rd December of 2015.
The news is about a new device installed in cars that can control when a motorist is weary, falling asleep or not paying attention to the road and give warning to other motorists while setting off an alarm. The Britain's Transport Research Laboratory stated that this would help decrease the number of accidents with vehicles and that this might be the greatest advance in automobiles' safety since the air bag (around 1990). Many accidents are caused by tireness and, in the recent years, by using the phone while driving.
The device consists in a camera on the car's dashboard that is focused on the face of the driver (the eyes, specially), and can detect when the motorist is not paying attention.
The comission thinks that it could be installed in every new car in five years, though it has to be approved by the Parliament first. This is not the only comission working for this kind of safety. Companies like Volvo, Mercedes Benz or Ford are also making their own measures to check on the motorists' attention to the road. Mercedes Benz, for example, is developing a system for its Eclass models that will be able to detect the position of the vehicle in the lane, so if it changes position in a bad way, the vehicle will be able to correct the mistake by itself. Also, it's been considered to include a "hands-free" system that will give the car autonomy.
This is what happens when you fall asleep
Personally, I think this is a good advance for vehicles, and not only that, but it's also something necessary for our own safety. Making sure that a driver is paying attention to the road could save a lot of lives, I'm sure of it. This is yet another example of how much technology can help society, rather than corrupting it, and make the world a better place.
Here's a video on the news!
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