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Researchers rigged a car and a test to vary the amount of cognitive load that a driver encountered to measure how impaired they could become. The results were interesting.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/03/behind-the-wheel-not-all-distractions-are-equal/
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/03/behind-the-wheel-not-all-distractions-are-equal/
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Date: 2012-03-20 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-20 06:04 am (UTC)The thing that I think will be tricky will be that a person will still have to be behind the wheel, ready to take over with very short notice. And the insurance companies are going to scream when someone gets t-boned with no chance to react and they technically weren't in control of the victim vehicle (presuming that the striker wasn't in autonomous mode, I'd assume that the programming wouldn't permit a T collision).
But it is a beginning, and a pretty good one at that.