Future cars can read the driver's mood

That's the technology developed by Affectiva to help the car detect the driver's mood by giving the appropriate warning ...

Many drivers who drive in anger, or distraction, will be very dangerous, a car that can "read the emotions" can help the driver focus back or interfere with the driver's control.

Future cars can understand the driver's feelings.

Affectiva's technology is based on a camera system that monitors the driver's face with 33 preset points. Based on the change of landmarks, the system will compare with 5 million faces in different emotions from which the response to the driver.

In order to collect a huge database of face patterns in different emotions, Affectiva has developed a network in 75 different countries.

At the presentation at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Affectiva CEO Abdelrahman Mahmoud explained that facial expressions in each country, each culture. For example, Thai people have smiles than other countries.

Based on the change of facial features, the Affectiva system can read human emotions.

According to Abdelrahman Mahmoud, reading the driver's feelings will help reduce traffic accidents. When a car knows the "owner" has bad feelings it can automatically switch to less dangerous driving mode (slow down, go to a private lane ...) even gain control in the field. emergency.

Mahmoud said that Affectiva is currently working with a number of German and Japanese car manufacturers, although he has not revealed much about the company's customers yet. The prototype uses technology to be launched next year. .