[LINK] Cars, again

[Tom Worthington]

On 07/12/17 10:27, Jim Birch wrote:

> XKCD on self-driving cars ...

Ken Kroeger, Executive Chairman of Seeing Machines gave a fascinating 
presentation on Monday night in Canberra about their technology for 
self-driving cars. Seeing machines makes head and eye tracking 
technology, originally developed at ANU, to check drivers of vehicles 
are paying sufficient attention: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2017/12/canberra-start-up-overnight-success.html

While Ken was speaking in Canberra, his colleagues in London were 
raising 35 million Pounds for expansion: 
http://www.iii.co.uk/alliance-news/1512494249463655700-3/seeing-machines-raises-gbp35-million-in-oversubscribed-placing-alliss-

This technology could make ordinary vehicles safer by checking if the 
driver is paying sufficient attention to the road. If they are looking 
down at a smart phone, or at the kids in the back, a warning tone could 
be sounded from the direction the driver should be looking.


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