WHAT ARE CARS MONITORING ON THE ROAD AND ABOUT DRIVERS?
Radar, lasers and cameras are making their way inside cars with the intention to keep occupants safe and make controlling the vehicle even easier than normal.
A plethora of firms are employing millimetre-wave radar which has such a small wavelength it can take highly detailed measurements.
US-based firm Texas Instruments uses a mounted device to identify people in the car and classify them as a woman or a man.
It is also able to spot the presence of pets and, with enough developments in computing ability, it would be able to detect bodily functions such as respiration.
Start-up Caareys has built two systems that utilise radar, with one performing analysis of heart rate, breath rate and driver health condition while its other project counts the number of passengers and positioning of them
Start-up Caareys has built two systems that utilise radar, with one performing analysis of heart rate, breath rate and driver health condition while its other project counts the number of passengers and positioning of them.
Biometrics and the information this provides is also being integrated into cars.
British firm B-Secur is working on technology that will place medical-grade sensors inside a car's steering wheel to monitor a person's unique cardiac rhythm.
BMW unveiled gaze recognition technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year that will let drivers control the inside of the car using only their eyes.
A high-definition camera mounted in the dashboard will track a customer's head and eyes to precisely identify what they are looking at - either inside or outside the car.
BMW claims drivers will be able to look outside the car windscreen at a restaurant they are passing and learn its menu, opening hours and even book a table.
BMW unveiled gaze recognition technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year that will let drivers control the inside of the car using only their eyes
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