The man in the photo is not Rick Moranis from “Honey I Shrunk the Kids.” He’s a German engineer who is working on a system called “eyeDriver” which uses the movements of the driver’s eye to steer the car. Since the vast majority of drivers seem to be perplexed by how to operate a vehicle with their hands on a steering wheel and it seems like shiny objects distract lots of drivers, we pray this idea dies a quiet death in the design stage.
We presume the bicycle helmet is the mount of choice for the eye piece because impact is imminent at some point and the engineer wants to avoid a trip to the hospital. Currently the engineers have mounted the system in a van and have been testing it at an abandoned airport in Germany. They have gotten the van up to 31 mph using the system and the next step is to rocket the thing up to 60 mph.
The obvious questions relate to what happens when someone looks away from the road at their phone, a billboard for a gentleman’s club, or a woman who looks as though she may need a ride on a poorly lit city street in the wee hours of the morning. Does the car veer off the road? Does it plow into the traffic directly in front of it?
The future is looking like a scarier place every day.
Source — GizmoWatch.com — eyeDriver lets you drive a car using the eyes alone (with video)
