{"id":114490,"date":"2020-10-15T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cars-will-soon-be-able-to-sense-and-react-to-your-emotions"},"modified":"2020-10-16T03:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:40:34","slug":"cars-will-soon-be-able-to-sense-and-react-to-your-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cars-will-soon-be-able-to-sense-and-react-to-your-emotions","title":{"rendered":"Cars Will Soon Be Able to Sense and React to Your Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3VwYIazybI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Except someone\u2014or, rather, something\u2014 <em>can<\/em> hear: your car. Hearing your angry words, aggressive tone, and raised voice, and seeing your furrowed brow, the onboard computer goes into \u201csoothe\u201d mode, as it\u2019s been programmed to do when it detects that you\u2019re angry. It plays relaxing music at just the right volume, releases a puff of light lavender-scented essential oil, and maybe even says some meditative quotes to calm you down.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think\u2014creepy? Helpful? Awesome? Weird? Would you actually calm down, or get even more angry that a car is telling you what to do?<\/p>\n<p>Scenarios like this (maybe without the lavender oil part) may not be imaginary for much longer, especially if companies working to integrate emotion-reading <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> into new cars have their way. And it wouldn\u2019t just be a matter of your car soothing you when you\u2019re upset\u2014depending what sort of regulations are enacted, the car\u2019s sensors, camera, and microphone could collect all kinds of data about you and sell it to third parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except someone\u2014or, rather, something\u2014 can hear: your car. Hearing your angry words, aggressive tone, and raised voice, and seeing your furrowed brow, the onboard computer goes into \u201csoothe\u201d mode, as it\u2019s been programmed to do when it detects that you\u2019re angry. It plays relaxing music at just the right volume, releases a puff of light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,42,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114517,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114490\/revisions\/114517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}