This Tech To Help Driverless Cars Not Let Drunk Drivers Take Control

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Setting aside the self-driving hype, today driverless cars have been still far to become completely autonomous ones. Most of the self-driving vehicles still need some help from drivers behind the wheel.

And if people are able to control their vehicles, drunk or sleepy drivers still can pose a serious threat to other road ones, even when their vehicles are self-driving partially. Therefore, the European scientists seek to equip autonomous cars with some sensors which can discover when the drivers become unconscious or drunk too much for various reasons, according to an article on Horizon Magazine.

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When an eye-tracking sensor or built-in breathalyzer detects that a person is not suitable for driving, the car would take over and finish the drive or switch on the hazard lights and move to the road’s side to stop.

Anna Anund of the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute told Horizon said:

According to Anund, scientists want to achieve an acceptable and safe transition to avoid heavy crashes with many people killed or severely injured.

Advanced technologies

The technologies which probably help driverless cars be safer such as car ignition breathalyzers, eye-tracking software, etc have already existed. The important thing is to ensure that they are implemented in every driverless vehicle which still needs the intervention of the human.

Anund and colleagues have worked on scanners to make all semi-self-driving vehicles safer for years, but their study is still main conceptual because it will depend on driver-less vehicle makers to take this initiative and ensure the cars are as safe as possible.