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> His employer could have prevented such a “disastrous” outcome, said Farahany, with a “simple wearable hat” that, using “embedded electro-sensors,” could measu

> His employer could have prevented such a “disastrous” outcome, said Farahany, with a “simple wearable hat” that, using “embedded electro-sensors,” could measure brain wave activity and gauge “what stage of alertness the person was experiencing and whether or not they are starting to fall asleep.” Sure... or 5 other ways that don't involve reading brain waves.

cypherpunks01 4y ago
Perhaps cameras that feed some sort of AI vision service trained to detect how much time has been spent driving, and automatically call their boss? How else could a trucker possibly be stopped from driving so far? Lol
- trekkie1024 4y ago
  1. GPS tracking 2. What you said above, already possible [1] 3. An electronic distance limiter on the truck itself [1] https://www.cadillac.com/ownership/vehicle-technology/super-cruise https://www.cadillac.com/ownership/vehicle-technology/super-...
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  Off the top of my head, I was thinking a simplistic CAPTCHA-like device. * "Here's 2 shapes. Press the triangle." * "Here's 2 numbers. Press the bigger one." It would have to be something a trucker can easily solve at a glance, barely taking their eyes off the road. And they get a couple tries, a couple warnings, and then a loud siren and the event gets logged with their employer. 3 strikes system or something. There's a dozen ways this could fail, but it's a fun thought experiment: "how do you determine a trucker is awake and functioning, without distracting them too much, annoying them too much, getting too many false positives, or putting electrodes on their brain?"
  - blep_ 4y ago
    I remember, many years ago, using an alarm clock on my phone that used questions like that. It was a clever solution to the problem I was having at the time, which was that I kept oversleeping because I got really good at shutting off the alarm before waking up enough to remember what alarm clocks were for.
  - CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
    WEF: "But...we want to put electrodes on their brain..."
skibidibipiti 4y ago
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cypherpunks01 4y ago

Perhaps cameras that feed some sort of AI vision service trained to detect how much time has been spent driving, and automatically call their boss? How else could a trucker possibly be stopped from driving so far? Lol

trekkie1024 4y ago
1. GPS tracking 2. What you said above, already possible [1] 3. An electronic distance limiter on the truck itself [1] https://www.cadillac.com/ownership/vehicle-technology/super-cruise https://www.cadillac.com/ownership/vehicle-technology/super-...
unsupp0rted 4y ago
Off the top of my head, I was thinking a simplistic CAPTCHA-like device. * "Here's 2 shapes. Press the triangle." * "Here's 2 numbers. Press the bigger one." It would have to be something a trucker can easily solve at a glance, barely taking their eyes off the road. And they get a couple tries, a couple warnings, and then a loud siren and the event gets logged with their employer. 3 strikes system or something. There's a dozen ways this could fail, but it's a fun thought experiment: "how do you determine a trucker is awake and functioning, without distracting them too much, annoying them too much, getting too many false positives, or putting electrodes on their brain?"
- blep_ 4y ago
  I remember, many years ago, using an alarm clock on my phone that used questions like that. It was a clever solution to the problem I was having at the time, which was that I kept oversleeping because I got really good at shutting off the alarm before waking up enough to remember what alarm clocks were for.
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
  WEF: "But...we want to put electrodes on their brain..."

skibidibipiti 4y ago

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