June 07, 2001
The cap that stops drivers falling asleep
The cap that stops drivers falling asleep
Future drivers could be seen sporting an Australian developed "cap" that reads their brainwaves and warns them when they're about to fall asleep. According to Dr Lal, countermeasures developed to date have tended to rely on indirect assessment of drowsiness, such as monitoring head nodding, lane deviation, or hand movements on the steering wheel. "But by then it could be too late," Dr Lal says. "Our system involves an online, beat to beat continuous feedback of brainwave activity."
Posted by rshah at June 7, 2001 12:00 PM