In under two years’ time you could be driving a car that is purely based on controlling the secondary function like turning on the music, making a call or control air conditioning by raising or lowering the hand. All this will be possible courtesy a car having a special gadget that controls car’s function using nods and winks being developed by engineers from global infotainment specialists Harman. The technology uses infra-red sensor mounted on the dash board that recognizes driver’s facial expressions and these facial expressions are then further translated by a computer into a list of commands for devices like radio, satellite navigation, heating and mobile phone.
Now the question to be asked is how the technology differentiates these very gestures from the normal instinctive gestures? For this very purpose the gesture recognizing program carefully looks for the driver’s particular movement to avoid any wrong action as a result of the gesture. Some of the main functions that can be controlled by this gesture recognizing gadget are as follows.
• Tilting the head to left or right for controlling the volume of radio or music player.
• Controlling the air conditioning or heating system of the car by just lowering or raising the hand in front of the gear stick.
• Make a phone call making the receiver gesture with the hand and then dial by saying contact’s name.
• Wheel tap to skip the song or station for easy navigation of music.
Via: DailyMail
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