DOZING DRIVERS
July 1st, 2002
BY JONATHAN THOMSONBMW is developing a new high-tech system to prevent drivers falling asleep at the wheel, after research by the German Insurance Association (GdV) revealed that tiredness caused a quarter of all fatal accidents on autobahns.BMW's "driving alertness assistant" operates using a small camera fitted inside the car, which examines eye blinking patterns to assess how watchful or tired the driver is. If it recognises that the driver is becoming less attentive the system responds with a visual display warning.Dr Raymond Freymann, director of BMW Group ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.