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Toyota Develops Eylid-Monitoring System

Posted January 23, 2008 8:38 AM

From Crave: the gadget blog:

If BMW's rumbling steering wheel, Infiniti's Lane Departure Prevention system, and Volvo's coffee-break alert are not enough to keep you awake at the wheel, then Toyota may have developed just the thing for you. According to its announcement today, Toyota has developed an enhancement to its Pre-Crash safety system that can determine whether or not a driver's eyes are open. The system relies on a driver-monitoring camera and image-processing computer, which determine the position of the driver's upper and lower eyelids. The development follows Toyota's existing face-monitoring technology--available on the Lexus LS600h--which tracks the orientation of the driver's face and sounds a warning if it detects a sustained period of inattention. The eye-monitoring system is scheduled for launch in Japan "in the near future," according to Toyota.

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Re: Toyota Develops Eylid-Monitoring System

01/23/2008 11:46 PM

Over 30 years ago a local inventor showed me such a system mounted to eyeglasses or sunglasses, then about 5 years ago I saw another system monitoring temperature, that was used for mining truck drivers, where falling asleep can cost millions.

I drive lots of miles and the rumble strips are the best life-saver I know of, fortunately used much too often. If you see someone weaving blow your horn! and save a life.

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01/30/2008 4:36 AM

A system much cheaper was worked out over 40 years ago.

Observation had shown that when a person dozed off, their chin dropped and a small collar was made with a couple of contacts to give a mild electric shock under the chin.

Very effective for long-distance truck-drivers, I remember a friend who used one on the big rigs when driving from Perth to Port Hedland in Western Australia over 30 years ago.

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