FaceID as a driver attention detector

[giggles]

The title is self explanatory.

Seems like a no brainer.

Hope that every turn-by-turn navigator (apple maps, tomtom, etc.) will support a driver attention mode in the coming years. You mount it pointed at your face and you’re set. When you start to look sleepy, a super loud alarm wakes you up.

Any app already available? Is the FaceID eye detection even exposed to 3rd party apps?

 

[Sunnyday2017]

My 2017 Honda CRV does that already. It shows a coffee cup if I begin to drift left or right towards the lines.

 

[giggles]

My 2017 Honda CRV does that already. It shows a coffee cup if I begin to drift left or right towards the lines.

Yes, that’s where I got the idea, car manufacturers doing that already.

The iPhone X could do that on old cars, or new cars without that safety feature.

 

[Sunnyday2017]

Interesting idea.

 

[CharlesShaw]

I was actually thinking about the opposite. If the iPhone detects your attention while driving, it tells you to pay attention to the road.

 

[woodynorman]

I was actually thinking about the opposite. If the iPhone detects your attention while driving, it tells you to pay attention to the road.

If you're using GPS, it requires you to look at the phone.

 

[D1G1T4L]

If you're using GPS, it requires you to look at the phone.

Or just listen to the directions from the car speakers.

 

[CharlesShaw]

If you're using GPS, it requires you to look at the phone.

"I'm sorry, Dave. I cannot allow you to look at the map for such long periods of time without endangering the mission. I am going to take control of further navigations."

 

[woodynorman]

Or just listen to the directions from the car speakers.

Unless you are on a phone call, which happens to me all day long. I use an iPad mini for GPS because of this.

 

[D1G1T4L]

Unless you are on a phone call, which happens to me all day long. I use an iPad mini for GPS because of this.

A good solution to that would be to allow muliple bluetooth connections which allow you to pick what gets what info. Your handsfree device would get the calls and directions pushed to the cars audio system.

 

[woodynorman]

A good solution to that would be to allow muliple bluetooth connections which allow you to pick what gets what info. Your handsfree device would get the calls and directions pushed to the cars audio system.

My old Toyota work truck has no bluetooth. My handsfree device are AirPods. I like my GPS separate from my phone. I don't use spoken directions. I find it distracts me from my phone calls, which I make or receive 50-75 times a day. On any given day, I'm navigating to 10+ different residential addresses. But I know better ways to get to the neighborhood I'm headed to. So I tend to ignore directions, until Im in the immediate area of the house I'm going to. Having spoken directions telling me to make a U turn, etc, when I know there a quicker/better way to get there, is just plain distracting. Having an iPad guiding my way, but not distracting me, is the best solution for me.

 

[giggles]

I was actually thinking about the opposite. If the iPhone detects your attention while driving, it tells you to pay attention to the road.

But on a serious note, I was thinking more of an off-angle eye detection based on patterns of eye movements, lids gradually closing, even facial muscles (like for animojis) patterns indicating drowsiness...all of this with no need to stare directly into the phone but at an angle like when you unlock faceID at extreme angles..

Maybe force the user to plug the phone into a charger to compensate for the added power needed.

And after 3 alerts in a short time, maybe lock the user out of GPS apps and direct him to the nearest place suitable for resting?