15 April 2013

Ford aims to check your stress

Ford has built a car simulator to showcase development of biometric sensors that will monitor how much a driver is under stress, writes Brian Byrne.

It uses sensors in the steering wheel to monitor heart rate and skin conductivity (for sweaty palms), as well as remote probes to measure skin temperature and breathing rate.

The systems will eventually be included in a suite of technologies aimed at reducing driver workload in busy situations, such as inhibiting engine messages and incoming communications in these situations.