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It must have been painful to sit through all of this tripe.I may have paraphrased slightly...

Did Toll check with the manufacturers to ensure that the sun would still rise next morning after installing Guardian?

50] Also in cross-examination, Mr Hepburn said he was not sure whether Toll had sought approval or authorisation from the manufacturers of the vehicles as to whether it is appropriate to install the various elements of the Guardian system.[57] Mr Hepburn said he was aware there are standards and guidelines involved in making any alterations to the seat or internal aspects of the vehicles, though was not personally aware that Toll has ascertained from the manufacturer whether this is appropriate.[58]

Yes that is the union's playbook there, but also the answers to refute the spurious claims.

Driving a 14 hour shift on those long distance routes - went aren't the unions looking after their members and helping to deploy this faster, rather than arguing about milliwats of IR. Did they not notice that that big orange ball in the sky is a little bit stronger and has IR and UV in far larger amounts.

Thanks all at sea

Good argument ET, but just to clarify the target date is the early 2020's so could be a late as 2023/4

The problem is that "fatigue risk management systems" can be sleep diaries, changes to working practices etc, it doesn't necessarily means they have to implement DMS

I have called down on the way home. The report is as it is it backs changes to schedules and breaks etc, not technology.
There is no point in us pursuing her, the report is final
Let them have that first. As Schlem says DMS is still coming because it is mandatory.

Dr Filtness is the author and she follows Mike Lenne on Twitter!
Does she not read what he posts

I missed a bit, but it didn't get much better:

3.1.1.3.3 Fatigue-detection Technology
Advancements in technology have led to the development of certain fatigue-detection systems,
aimed at helping drivers and operators detect and monitor fatigue states. The systems mainly
function by collecting and measuring physiological outputs using a variety of measures, to produce
information relating to driver fatigue. A vision-based fatigue detection system was proposed for use
in bus driving, incorporating exisiting cabin cameras to measure a range of variables including face
detection, eye detection, eye openess estimation, and percentage of eyelid closure, in order to
predict the drivers fatigue state (Mandal, Li, Wang & Lin, 2017). Experimentally, despite the low
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resolution images and the viewing angle, the system was able to distinguish between sleepy and
drowsy states, and the normal driving state. Research has also suggested the use of EEG recordings
to monitor the fatigue state of bus drivers (Wang & Wang, 2013). However, certain measurements,
especially physiological measurements, may be considered to be intrusive, or even distracting.
Systems also need to be monitored and interpreted, resulting in the need for additional time and
possibily training and expertise. Devices have also been recommended to be installed into buses to
detect fatigue-related decrements in driver performance (Sando et al., 2010). Although not
suggested as a countermeasure to fatigue, research measuring fatigue in bus drivers utilised a range
of performance tests including reaction time, speed perception, and attention (Sang & Li, 2012),
which possibly could be incorporated into fitness for duty tests or an evaluation of driver state
before, during, or after their duty period.

The Loughborough report misses the open goal.
It is a purely academic review of existing research - and they missed the good stuff pointing to Seeing Machines. There is no mention of Croydon or Trams!

3.1.1.4.6 Other Available In-vehicle Technologies
...

"Several fatigue monitoring technologies for use in the transport industry are commercially available
in the US, UK, and Europe (Dong, Hu, Uchimura & Murayama, 2011). Although not exclusively for
fatigue mitigation, camera based Lane Departure Warning Systems (LDWS), which employ various
algorithms to estimate the state of the vehicle (speed) and road positioning or alignment (lane
width), have been designed to prevent ‘run-off-the-road’ crashes (Houser, Murray, Shackelford,
Kreeb, & Dunn, 2009), and have been distributed within the US trucking industry. Other on-board
safety systems have been considered for use within various transport operations, including military
vehicle and truck drivers (Dinges, Maislin, Brewster, Krueger, & Carroll, 2005), with the aim of
reducing fatigued driving (Dinges et al., 2005; Houser et al., 2009; Kerick, Metcalfe, Feng, Ries, &
McDowell, 2013). A review of other avaialble technologies was conducted by Kerick et al., (2013).
These technologies include vehichle enviroment monitors (e.g. SafeTrak) which alerts drivers to
erratic driving and lane departures, senor-based monitors (e.g. Advisory System for Tired Drivers,
ASTiD) which can track steering behaviour, and smartphone apps which can record and evalute sleep
history (e.g. Fatigue Calculator). Driver performance feedback technologies could be effective in
terms of self-enforcement, by delivering feedback to both the driver and their employer. This
approach has been developed and used with the aim of tackling risky driving in young, novice
drivers, installing monitoring devices to deliver feedback to drivers and parents (Guttman & GesserEdelsburg, 2011)."

I need to buy a new mobile phone - I know I will conduct an extensive research based on 5 year old academic papers!!

Yes, good find schlem.

I wonder who's tech Denso we're talking about?

Glad to see that "form follows function" correctly explained the strange ridge on the Byton dash had to be our camera. Interesting that the separate Time of Flight camera is required for gestures or is that just so it can cover the whole cabin?

Thanks Seeing

What could this be...

With its unmistakable sports-car proportions, low-slung, wedge-shaped silhouette, gullwing doors and clear, pared-back styling, the BMW Vision M NEXT succeeds in blending classic design cues for dynamic performance with sustainable driving pleasure. Inside the cabin, innovative technology is used to focus the driver’s attention on what is happening on the road ahead. The “focus logic” takes BMW’s famed driver focus to the next level by adapting the information displays to the changing driving situation. As the vehicle speeds up, the readouts shift increasingly into the driver’s direct field of view and centre more and more on driving-related information.

Seeing Machines has successfully concluded a trial with a large international airline.

Their Guardian DMS system normally used in the cabs of trucks to ensure the alertness of drivers has now been employed in cattle class seats of a Boeing 787. It successfully managed to keep all passengers awake for the 19-hour test flight, including babies and children.

A spokesperson for the airline praised Seeing Machines as this new development will ensure that no-one escapes the safety presentation or the extended sales offer of duty free goods. Sales of alcohol were also reported to be up.

I read that a different way.

For example X-box, PS4, PC, Android - they are all different platforms, but you can have games that are on all platforms.

The game maps are the same, the game play is the same, most of the code in the game engine is the same, the graphics and the sounds are the same. Yes there are tweaks, customisations and optimisations to do for each platform and each does need testing but the shared resources are considerable.

Now consider "self-driving tech alliance"

shere development structure
Share test data
share scenarios
share labeled videos
common communication to sensors
share mapping engine
share vision system development
share ...

Now Merc could run that on an X-box, VW on PS4 and BMW on Android
(Conti, Bosch, ... are the X-box, PS4, ... in no particular order)

Each company can customise and add their own branding and special features on top

Of course, they could also optimise on a common technology ( Xilinx rather than NVidia) but Bosch could provide this as well as Conti. (Note I am not an expert, or a blogger so don't take my word for it!)

None of that would force Seeing Machines to be the default solution. I think we already achieved that on our merit

I was talking to a driver at an open day who was showing off the new low cabs on our fleet that have extra windows, cameras and sensors to improve visibility for cyclists and pedestrians. I mentioned DMS and how that might be good.

No, we won't accept it unless the managers all have it in their cars too

It was good to see the workers standing up for manager's safety. I think he may get his wish granted before the trucks next get replaced.

Blockchain is sooooo last season darling.

Call me a cynic, but blockchain is just a fancy word for "database". OK, so it has some special features like being "secure" and transactions can't be reversed or changed (without the risk of losing everything) but this makes them slow and very inefficient. That is why bitcoin miners use so much energy.

Over the years marketing, PR and less non-investigative journalists have jumped on these magic words. They may have had a meaning once, but soon they become magic words, the general public shouldn't know what they mean or the words and those who use them lose their power, then the Emperor looks silly in his new clothes

Ecofriendly, "lazer", future proof, idiot proof, as seen on TV, anything said in a shampoo or skincare commercial, "new and improved", low fat, low sugar, high energy sports drink, no BPA, CFC free, Added B12.

Should Seeing Machines use blockchain - no. Not unless everyone in the room can agree what the real problem is and how exactly blockchain would really help.

We do "no BS DMS" . I hope everyone knows what we mean by that (not yet I just checked the share price) and I don't want to read it on a bottle one day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-49362428/pigs-emotions-could-be-read-by-new-farming-technology

In the UK

500k HGV registered in 2018 (Total UK registered trucks/lorries) 48k were registered for the first time in 2018 (New trucks/Lorries)

However, I then got distracted...
Have a look at
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/all-vehicles-veh01

VEH0126: Licensed vehicles by make and model and year of manufacture: United Kingdom is particularly interesting

Do you know that there are only 182 Austin Allegro still on the road
And in April 2018 there were 12249 Teslas

https://youtu.be/PCkWbahB3-o

No direct mention of SEE, but a good overview of the funding of AV market

It is amazing who you can bump into when you're on holiday.

https://www.forces.net/news/protector-gives-raf-reaper-force-glimpse-future

Actually, Schlem, I am with the author on this one. DMS keeps an eye on the driver to check they are alert at all times for level 2. For Level 3 the driver is supposed to be able to take eyes off as well as hands and feet off, until the car needs to pass control back. Here the DMS is to monitor the drivers level of attention to make sure sufficient time is available for the handover so the car knows that you are ready to accept control and liability. That is the "easy" part that we do. The hard part is making sure that we can trust the car 99.999... % of the time to perform while it is driving until it hands over to a human, since the car maker is liable for any accidents in this time. Actually donkeys have been in charge of driving vehicles for some time, it is just that they prefer to walk in front and steer from there. They can manage lane centering and cruse control wire well but perhaps not at the higher highway speeds,