Interesting EE Times interviee21 Feb 2020 17:56
EE Times speaks to Colin B. Effectively he says there has been a sea change from major OEMs around DMS since CES.
COLIN BARNDEN: Yes. Really, the future that I see is driver monitoring systems in absolutely every vehicle. Because really what we need is… That’s essentially where technology can really help humans, is around distraction and fatigue. And there’s starting to be some handover between the automated driving features and the human driver. Call that Level Two Plus, Level Three Minus, whatever. That essentially is where driver monitoring is absolutely critical. And that’s really what we’re seeing with Super Cruise and the recently launched system in the Cadillac Escalade, which is a seeing-machine system. And that’s using infrared vision to track the head position, the eye gaze of the driver, and looking for evidence of fatigue in terms of the blink duration of the driver. And really you can use both systems in highway assist Level Two Plus, or you can use it down into Level Two systems as well, to keep the driver engaged in the driving task and for the system to know at all times what the driver’s engagement level and awareness is.