Car crashes killed 37,133 people in the US in 2017
To all self-driving companies testing on public road, even Waymo, which is the current leader: [1]<p>Why don’t you develop&#x2F;deploy a face and eye tracking system to detect if the test driver is dozing off or otherwise not paying enough attention and act accordingly? (Warn first, and if needed, take the car to a safe spot and stop.)<p>The system should be useful in real deployment with passenger&#x2F;driver on board as well, since the self-driving car needs to know if it should obey human’s manual command, which should also depend on the person’s state of attention at the moment.<p>[1] Waymo’s self-driving car crashed because its human driver fell asleep at the wheel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1410928&#x2F;waymos-self-driving-car-crashed-because-its-human-driver-fell-asleep&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1410928&#x2F;waymos-self-driving-car-crashed-becau...</a><p>[2] In addition, we all heard about the case which the test driver was watching a movie and a pedestrian was killed.