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The clue to the camera is in the text. It was located 'in the future'. I expect we will find ours there in the A-pillar with a light bar replacing the trim in on the dash
How can you monitor driver behaviour?
Eva Lahti: “In the future we will introduce cameras and driver monitoring that will not only look at the steering input, but also the driver’s eyes and posture to recognise if the driver is drowsy or perhaps under the influence of alcohol or drugs. And if the system detects that the driver shouldn’t actually be driving the car, it will warn them. This is just monitoring the driver here and now – we will not record the information or send it anywhere. The important thing to remember is that this is not surveillance of the driver.”
How much of an issue is driver distraction?
Eva Lahti: “At Volvo Cars, we say that you as a driver are always responsible for driving your car and that should be your main focus. You shouldn’t look away. But we know it doesn’t always work like that. People make short glances to the driver display, to the centre display, to the rear-view mirror. And glances are OK so long as your main focus is on the road. The problem is that with more and more assistance in cars these days, it’s easy to over-trust the car. You might be thinking, ‘the car is steering itself, so I can check emails or change the destination on the map’, but it is actually never OK to do that – even though you’re driving in assisted mode and the car is helping you to steer and keep a safe distance to the car in front. There is a lot of discussion about automated cars and automated drive but, to be clear, there are no automated cars today.”
Images from an evening on the streets of Gothenburg
Robert Thomson: “When you’re driving, you’re looking at the road for only 85% of the time. So what are you doing with the other 15%? We have to figure out how we get this human, who is easily bored and distracted, to arrive at their destination safely. What I notice, and we see it in our research too, is that people play with their cell phones – especially on the highway – they talk with the people beside them, they eat and drink. It’s these secondary tasks which can be dangerous.”
https://www.volvocars.com/intl/build/suv/xc90/inscription-7-seat/b5-mild-hybrid-automatic-awd/personalize/optional-equipment?s=BD9QPJP
The circular thing in the middle of the dash is a speaker. Is that what you mean?
I have been messing around with creating my own Volvo XC90 and I can't see anything that mentions DMS as an "optional equipment" or "package" so I assume it is standard.
Sch, I have looked again, but above the mirror is too high. Perhaps at the top of the instrument panel between date and temperature. Still a location that is going to catch sun though. Higher in the cabin avoids the sun but harder to see the eyes, especially with glasses. Perhaps behind darlek on the horizontal bar but that looks like a storage area. or in the bar above the instruments, but if not a camera perhaps the leds are there. Or maybe there wasn't a camera...
Is Volvo correcting the sunlight issues experienced by GM and Super Cruise?
If you follow the link to explore XC90, you can get 360 view of the interior. Darlek on the dash seems to be a grid of some sort. I suspect the camera may be in darkish plastic above the mirror, where it faces the occupants at the correct angle down?
Non of the 4 Smart Eye AB Patents from 2018/19 have any Mosaics that show the camera in any other position than directly in front of the driver from my brief skim. The central positioning also lends it self to occupant monitoring which I believe also is not covered in any SE Patent.
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?ST=singleline&locale=en_EP&submitted=true&DB=&query=smart+eye+ab
Shallwe Yes, in a name. So, only up to 37mph, so convenience, so bang goes Vision 2020. Maybe the camera is there due to the sun issue?
Haven't seen the camera in that location before. And the caption after the '94%.....' bit calls it 'City Safety....' so I'm assuming for low speeds. Therefore it could be our friends SEYE? More than happy to be proved wrong.
I assume the spherical 'Dalek Eye' in the centre left of the dash is the camera. Not a shape or position I've seen before but that tells me nothing.
2nd last bullet point on that video "94% of accidents are caused by human factors" SM have world renowned Dr Mike SEYE think " the human factor" is a new Simon Cowell show Its safety so its SM.
Volvo video. Any clues?
https://www.volvocars.com/intl/discover-volvo/xc90-presents-paradox-of-safety