Cameras

Driver Drowsiness Checker Watches Your Facial Muscles

Improving on existing systems that only watch a driver’s eyes for signs of fatigue, Denso has created a drowsiness level checker that tracks subtle muscle movements over their entire face. Alerting them that they’re too tired before they fall asleep.


November 11, 2011
Software

iOnRoad For Android: When Phones In Cars Make Them Safer, Not Deathtraps

Typically when we’re talking about using your smartphone while driving, it’s either for maps or because it’s making your car into a death trap. iOnRoad is a pretty darn good attempt at using your phone to make you safer.


Software

Bert And Ernie Now Available For Your TomTom

Move over moustaches, it looks like November belongs to the Muppets this year. They’ve got a new movie coming out, there’s an online movement to have them host the Oscars, and now TomTom has announced a series of Sesame Street voices, starting with Bert and Ernie.


November 1, 2011
Cars

Soon It Will Be Impossible To Escape Radar Traps

Getting out of speeding tickets using a combination of savvy, hustle, gumption and sheer dumb luck might be on its way out thanks to Cordon, new radar system that tracks with Terminator-like accuracy tracking dozens of cars — and their licence plates — at a time.


October 27, 2011
Cars

Augmented Reality Navigation Displays In Your Windshield? Yes.

What if you’re driving down a dark road in the middle of the night and you have no idea where you are? Navigating twists and turns would suck. But what if your car could display all the relevant info in front of your eyes?


Gadgets

Escort SmartCord Puts Your Radar Detector Online

Users of Escort’s line of radar detectors are being encouraged to update their power cords to the company’s new SmartCord which adds a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone app, providing constant updates on the location of speed traps, red light cameras and other tools employed by John Law.


October 19, 2011
Cars

Pioneer’s AR HUD Puts Your Satnav Display On The Road Ahead

It’s certainly not the first demo we’ve seen of a windshield HUD system that incorporates navigation and other info so a driver can keep their eyes on the road. But it is the first from Pioneer, a company with the automotive experience to finally make a system like this a reality.


September 27, 2011
Cars

Ford Focus 2011 Tech Hands-On: Active Park Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control

Gizmodo AU

Lifehacker Australia was offered the opportunity to sit down for a chat with a couple of Ford executives and test drive the new 2011 Ford Focus last week. I was sent to get behind the wheel as the only member of the team with a full driver’s licence. One week, 800km and $70 worth of diesel fuel later, I was reluctant to give the keys back purely because of all the awesome tech I’m about to show you.


September 17, 2011
Cars

Why Does This Car’s GPS Mock French People?

Stereotypes: vicious, unfair and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you’re a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain.


September 9, 2011
Cars

The Most Horrific Traffic In The Entire World

LA and New York must have the worst commutes known to mankind, right? Totally wrong. It gets, much, much worse — according to IBM’s recent global survey of automotive horror, those two cities are among the best. What’re the worst?