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https://www.benzinga.com/tech/20/07/16473703/tesla-begins-rollout-of-software-update-2020-24-6-3-in-canada
The company may also be starting to use the interior camera to eventually enable driver monitoring via this camera. This would allow the car's driver assist features to ensure the driver is paying attention by keeping their eyes on the road.
I'd love to know the standard of their supposed driver monitoring camera. Surely we must be in discussions with them again for future models. A link to Tesla, although not huge numbers yet, would do wonders to the share price by association.
It's pretty Smart IMO to get these out with the device fitted but not activated to the customer. I'm guessing it'll be switched on for feedback and fine-tuning by Ford. A great way to build up the data sets.
Looks like we're going after new industries after the break of exclusivity from the CAT deal. We're sponsoring this one.
https://forestsafety.events/
16-18 June 2020
Online Webinar
Assess, Trial, Implement - How automated in-cab driver monitoring has revolutionised workplace and transport safety
Fiona Weston, Seeing Machines Launch & Education, Autosense
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32446948/mercedes-s-class-leak/
While Cadillac serves as the technological spearhead for GM, Super Cruise won’t remain exclusive to the luxury brand for much longer. The technology will soon trickle to other GM products, including the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EUV and GM’s line of full-size trucks.
“And next year, we’ll add Super Cruise to other brands and seven more models,” Reuss said, “and we’ll add 12 more in the following two years, including [GM] full-size pickups, SUVs and more. We are rolling this out in a very big way.”
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/04/vast-majority-of-cadillac-ct6-owners-want-super-cruise-in-their-next-vehicle/
The Cadillac CT6 was the first – and only – General Motors vehicle to feature the automaker’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving technology. That’s soon set to change, with new vehicles like the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac CT4 and Cadillac CT5 also receiving Super Cruise. That will be great news for current Cadillac CT6 owners, the vast majority of which say they want their next vehicle to feature the highway driving assist system.
During a presentation at General Motors’ Capital Markets Day event in February, company president Mark Reuss said 85 percent of Cadillac CT6 owners indicated they would prefer or only consider a vehicle equipped with Super Cruise in the future.
https://www.seeingmachines.com/humanfactors/astc/
New Webpage added today.
Seeing Machines, already protecting over 200 commercial transport and logistic fleets worldwide with Guardian, is committed to world class product development as we continually enhance our best in class operator monitoring technology.
In partnership with Monash University Accident Research Centre, Ron Finemore Transport Services and Volvo Trucks Australia, Seeing Machines is leading one of the Australian Federal Government’s funded Cooperative Research Centre Projects.
The Advanced Safe Truck Concept (ASTC), a A$6.5M project aims to reduce fatal truck crashes by developing new vehicle technologies, through the intense study of driver behaviour, in a range of settings, with a focus on driver fatigue and distraction.
Phase 1 of ASTC involves the testing of drivers in Monash University Accident Research Centre’s Advanced Driving Simulator, where humans are monitored in rested and fatigued states to achieve a better understanding of how drowsiness impacts driver safety and to better enable the prediction of safety outcomes.
The first of its kind in the world, the Advanced Safe Truck Concept links in-cab driver monitoring technology with the external traffic and roadway in real time. This is being carried out by fitting the Seeing Machines sensing suite to a number of vehicles in the Ron Finemore Transport Services fleet, and is known as Phase 2 – The Naturalistic Truck Safety Study, where on-road data is collected. The Ron Finemore Transport Services drivers will operate under normal conditions while the Seeing Machines advanced sensing suite collects real world data which will feed directly back into the study, providing unique insights into driver behaviour under various conditions.
Check out images from the successful media launch below.
Clutching at straws for news/clues but the car design in this looks Japanese.
https://twitter.com/seeingmachines/status/1253096441028853760?s=19
Are we putting too much trust in our smart cars?
As our vehicles enhance their #ADAS systems and integrate more smart technology features, it’s crucial for drivers to remain alert behind the wheel. https://t.co/hMt9cMQqRj
https://www.kxan36news.com/new-sensor-technology-enables-the-automated-driving-view
But not only the car to see better, also the driver, there is potential for improvement. For example, with a transparent sun shield, Bosch introduced two months ago at the electronics fair CES in Las Vegas (USA). To the interference of the sun to keep the light back, it would have to be the conventional aperture, however, is so great, because besides the glare, it also represents a visual obstruction. The new sun visor – Bosch calls it the Virtual Visor is replaced, the classic flap is a transparent LC Display and a driver-facing camera. On the transparent aperture is finally blacked out only that part, the sun would dazzle. The large residual area remains transparent.
From 2022 to motorists, according to the EU Standards in the case of fatigue or distraction warned. The legislature hopes that, through the enhanced security requirements up to 2038, more than 25’000 people’s lives can be saved. Therefore, warning systems for fatigue and distraction count is expected from 2025 to the program of the Euro-NCAP rating for safety of vehicles.
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/03/20200330-330e.html
I take it this is SE?....for now.
The Extended Traffic Jam Assistant is designed to help the driver during the most tedious driving environment, stop and go traffic. Designed to operate on limited access highways at speeds up to 37 mph, this system integrates Lane Keeping Assistant, Active Cruise Control with Stop and Go and a driver attention monitoring camera that replaces the need to touch the steering wheel every 30-50 seconds as long as the driver’s attention is clearly on the road ahead.
https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2020/03/24/l3harris-eotech-divestiture.aspx?m=1
Leidos is paying $1 billion to acquire L3Harris’ global airport security and automation product businesses in a deal both companies expect to close by June. That is the largest such divestiture so far for L3Harris, which is also selling its applied kilovolts and analytical instrumentation business.
And in September, L3Harris completed the sale of the legacy Harris night vision technology business to Elbit Systems of America for $350 million in cash. Harris sold that business in order to get antitrust approval for the merger with L3 to proceed.
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/new-qantas-fatigue-system-sets-stage-sunrise/
Quantas improving their fatigue monitoring. It's only a matter of time before we are in aviation.
“Globally, regulators and airlines are moving away from prescriptive, one size fits all fatigue rules to performance-based systems that are based on science and data to effectively manage pilot fatigue,’’ said Qantas chief pilot Captain Richard Tobiano.
The studies have gone as deep as tracking melatonin levels in urine to determine pilots’ circadian rhythms as they move across time zones.
It has also been using “bio-mathematical” modeling of rosters for several years to predict likely fatigue risk.
This is an algorithm that can analyze either an individual roster or batch process a group of rosters to identify problems. It looks at rostering issues such as time of day, how long a pilot has been awake and how much sleep he or she has had in the past 24 to 48 hours.
Sorry Schlem, just seen you've posed that.
On another note. Who's got that DMS above the steering wheel in the DS9? (I should really take notes and refer back to them).
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/new-ds-9-saloon-takes-aim-audi-a4
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150546/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-invesigation-huang-ntsb-hearing-live-stream
After investigators lay out their findings, the board’s members will then vote on any recommendations proposed and issue a final ruling on the probable cause of the crash. While the NTSB doesn’t have the legal authority to implement or enforce those recommendations, they can be adopted by regulators. The entire meeting will be live-streamed on the NTSB’s website starting at 1:00PM ET.
Let's hope they take this opportunity to recommend DMS for America.
Now that's the exposure we're talking about.
'After CES, it is evident that driver monitoring systems are central to the future of cars…. And we are talking about 100 million units a year of market opportunity'. Bloomberg International to air an exclusive interview with Paul McGlone on the RedChip Companies, Inc. Money Report TV program on Sunday 23 February at 3pm AEDT.
Well done.