Awake at wheel

MINDJACK -- I have a Primera neighbour who likes the car because it has a camera that shows what you're about to run over when you're reversing. I think the camera should be up front, integrated with intelligence and trained on the driver so it could activate a wake-up alarm when it sensed "nod off." That's the purpose of EyeQ.

IBM put prox chips (proximity detection chips) into webcams more than five years ago. The basics of this technology is already mass-market.

Professor Amnon Shashua of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has a chip that "operates in conjunction with a video camera that is mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle and that sends information on what it sees to an on-board computer containing the EyeQ chip." He wants to integrate the technology into a production car. I would like to know my car recognises when I'm about to park it inside a tree at 50 mph.

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Mobile Eye -- "EyeQ"
Roland Piquepaille -- "EyeQ: A Third Eye In Your Car Can Save Your Life" with schematics.
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