Driver Incapacitated/Medical Emergency
The vehicle:
I type this out, because my uncle died suddenly behind the wheel of his car in 1990. My aunt was able to pull the car over, primarily because their 1980's Oldsmobile had a bench seat and no center console, so she was able to access the pedals.
Modern cars have large center consoles, and this is not possible to do if a modern driver suffers the same unfortunate scenario.
The vehicle:
- Could automatically engage after the attention sensor (electronic eye that alerts your if you close your eyes) detects prolonged delays in driver response.
- Access steering wheel? (Maybe?)
- External Carbon Monoxide detector? (Unlikely for the "electric" future, but it was on my list, so here it is)
- Link to garage door (If incident occurs in a closed garage)
- Opens garage door in the event of medical emergency
- Flashes lights to alert authorities or rescue personnel
- Sense the surroundings for ideal location to pull over, with reasonably safety (Never on the median)
- Audible alert for nearby people and vehicles (alerts pedestrians, as well as continued attempts to make contact with driver)
- Automatically calls 911, and gives exact GPS coordinates.
- Would flash/strobe the headlights/taillights in a "SOS" fashion.
- Driver alert system goes into overdrive
- Turns off audio
- Turns off any active GPS instructions
- Connects 911 to other passengers in the car, if driver is unable to communicate directly
- Reduces speed to a reasonable limit (depending on the location of incident)
- Maybe medical records could be connected to the individual drivers key fob, so as to better prepare the arriving medical experts????
- Sync with Apple Watch/Garmin/FitBit to detect heart rate distress, body temperature and any other irregularities
- Video record the driver and passenger compartment, to review incident afterwards.
- Reasonably determines whether or not to disable the accelerator during incident (should the incapacitation be "self-induced")
I type this out, because my uncle died suddenly behind the wheel of his car in 1990. My aunt was able to pull the car over, primarily because their 1980's Oldsmobile had a bench seat and no center console, so she was able to access the pedals.
Modern cars have large center consoles, and this is not possible to do if a modern driver suffers the same unfortunate scenario.
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