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I don’t know if I should be grateful or nervous.

Toshiba debuted its automotive monitoring system at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2009 in Japan last week, with the capability to read a driver’s face and alert him if his eyes become distracted from the road, thus prompting the driver to correct his view and assumingly, avoid a possible accident.  Kinda cool, right?

Actually, yeah, it is.  The camera reads the driver’s face and evaluates his eyes’ direction to one of eight areas (the left, center and right areas of the windshield, left mirror, right mirror, meters, car navigation system and audio system).  The driver can also use the system to activate devices in the car like the GPS system (Winking to activate it? Really?  That’s kinda weird.).  It also picks up on the frequency of the driver’s blinks and can alert him to drowsy driving — alarming (haha).

Ignoring the subtle echoes of an Orwellian pattern somewhere in here, this could make for safer roads, which is good for all of us.  And it’s not like the guys at Toshiba are aiming to take over the world with a robot army or anything… or are they?  Just kidding. No release date has been announced but we look forward to news on this development.

Sources: Tech-On, New Launches, Gizmodo
Photo source: Uburgizmo.com

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