In-car Emotion Detectors to Improve Road Safety

"Funny, every time our customer looked at the dash the emotion went from neutral to disgust."

"Must be a software problem."

One size fits all for human facial expression? ...what a ridiculous notion...

< ---- Yea no kidding but at least it can't tell the difference between being happy and psychotically happy!

While there are a variety of facial expressions and there are many cultural and individual differences, humans are hard wired to display and understand certain basic facial gestures. It is a major first mode of communication as an infant and those instinctual facial expressions are effectively universal and stay with us for life.

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We tend to get more adept at limiting our initial genuine emotional display as we grow up. Culturally approved expressions are mapped over our genuine response, but almost everyone expresses strong emotions at the outset briefly in what is know as a micro-gesture. Being mindful and carefully observing (preferably without cluing the other person into the fact that they are receiving additional scrutiny) a persons initial brief facial response to new information likely to elicit a strong emotional response can provide more information than the words that follow as they attempt to verbally communicated their reaction.

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Happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, contempt and disgust are universally displayed as distinct brief facial expressions. All off those things are important things for survival to communicate rapidly and unambiguously, whether you are an infant or a clan member.

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Study: Humans Can Make More Than 20 Distinct Facial Expressions

On the bright side, it could improve your poker game!

Main reasons for accidents are drowsiness due to lack of sleep and poor mental coordination due excessive alcohol or drug consumption by the driver. Automatic slowing and application of brakes when the sensor unable to detect the pupil of the eye for more than 2 seconds( due to closer of eye lids). But need to explore ways for tackling later problem especially when drugs are used.

Cheaper and safer to not drive impaired.

I would think a robotic back seat driver would be more likely to induce road rage.

Well, yeah. Why would they put them in the back seat anyway....where they don't have a clear view of the road and where the driver will have a hard time keeping an eye on what they are actually up to?

Call it typical element-ist discrimination, if you like, but I don't want a silicon based life form looking over my shoulder trying to tell me how to improve my driving. Put them in the front seat! They don't need to be taking up the safer spaces usually reserved for those in child car seats.

Called Bitchin' Betty in the cockpit.

So what about those women who suffer from Bitchy Resting Face ?

...and the men with asshole resting face....?

Well that could very well mean that 2/3's of the members here will never drive again.

Or is it just the personality they have and their looks are fine?

Starts at the skin and goes through to the core mate, or viceversa...

I'm not too sure how well emotion detectors would work here.

One drives in a constant state of threat and peril.

I suspect those drivers are on average far more skilled than the average driver in the west, and far more alert and aware of their surroundings as well.

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I wonder what a comparison of serious accident per vehicle mile for similar traffic density would look like?

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If the reduction in serious accidents brought about by switching to traffic circles is any indication, as chaotic as it looks, there may be huge advantages to expecting people to wield some of that awesome processing power on a regular basis and wield a little less of that desire to be told exactly what to do.

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The real truth is, where ever in the world you drive on public roads, when you drive you are in a constant state of threat and peril, both from others towards you and from you towards others. I'm not sure that using a system of rules that is so rigid that we easily loose track of that fact is necessarily a good thing.

I suspect those drivers are on average far more skilled than the average driver in the west, and far more alert and aware of their surroundings as well.

Probably more skilled due to the chaos one has to negotiate or muscle through (bull bar with a winch on it makes others give way)....aware, most likely as every front door is an intersection.

Problem, the way I see it, is that folk here drive their cars now the same way they used to pilot their motos...dodging and weaving...

Then there are those who believe they have a sense of entitlement....normally gov types in Lexii , who believe that good traffic conduct is for everybody else.

The use of indicators here is pretty good...better than LA from my experience.. and they will let you in or cut across their path.

Then there's driving on the highways...something else again. Buffaloes are the same colour as the road.....

The PM here summed it up once by saying that the roads are Cambodia's new Killing Fields.