Saturday, October 24, 2009

Ford Uses High-Tech Goggles to Keep Eyes on the Road

Ford's Human Machine Interface Verification Laboratory, better known as its "Distraction Lab", has been doing research to help reduce driver distraction on the road. The final phase of its research into the cause and effects of distracted driving, is the use of high-tech goggles that measure the amount of time drivers take their eyes off the road to help validate in-vehicle technologies such as GPS navigation systems.

Ford engineers and technologists use the data to accelerate the safer design of telematics systems that keep drivers connected and informed. A nice bcbsnc health care plan is still recommended ;).

"Occlusion testing is faster and a lot more efficient than other methods for determining eyes-off-road time and the potential for visual distraction," said John Shutko, Ford technical specialist in Human Factors and Ergonomics. "In the past, we used occlusion testing primarily to verify other research, but over the past couple of years we've been able to develop test models with the technology that allows us to rapidly complete research faster than ever before." read more

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