{"id":9244,"date":"2013-12-05T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:58","slug":"driving-home-drunk-will-never-be-the-same-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/driving-home-drunk-will-never-be-the-same-again","title":{"rendered":"Driving Home Drunk Will Never Be the Same Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/the-autonomous-automobile-header-photo-523850-s-original.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people die every year due to drunk driving. It\u2019s a statistic that\u2019s both appalling and frightening. We all like to party, but then when the party\u2019s over, many still refuse to recognize the danger they not only put themselves in, but others as well when they choose to drive while mentally impaired. Thankfully a lot of potential situations are averted every year as well due to taxi services, or even friends willing to drive them home.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, we live in a very sensor-oriented society. Our phones have sensors. Our homes have sensors. Our tablets have sensors. Our cars have sensors. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/\">Tesla Motors<\/a> as an example. They have sensors by their doors which detects whether or not the right driver is approaching the vehicle. If it detects its correct driver, then it\u2019ll extrude the door handle out, ready to be open. If you\u2019re not the correct driver, however, like someone trying to hijack the vehicle, then the door handle will not pop out for you. Sorry.<\/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\/GIU73kK7ZUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another good example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbusa.com\/mercedes\/index\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, which has driving sensors attached to its braking system. If any object in front gets too close, then the brakes kick in automatically, preventing any accident from occurring. Too many fatalities occur due to simple, brief loss of eye contact to the road.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mercedes-Benz &quot;Sorry&quot; Commercial with Grim Reaper\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_Q5s_LqxJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So Mercedes-Benz\u2019s braking sensors represent a revolutionary means of saving thousands of lives every year, just as Tesla provides a revolutionary approach towards alleviating car theft.<\/p>\n<p>And what makes them so damn revolutionary? They create a real relationship between the car and its owner \u2014 to not just provide transportation for them, but to actually recognize them and protect them when they\u2019re incapable of doing so themselves.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine with me: It\u2019s 2018 and you\u2019re at a party. A lot of drinking and drugs. You realize it\u2019s already early morning and it\u2019s time to go home and get some rest. So you call for an automated vehicle using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/\">Uber\u2019s transportation services<\/a>. The vehicle arrives 10 minutes later. It recognizes via its sensors the debit card in your wallet used to pay for its transportation services and lets you in the vehicle. You try starting the car yourself, but the car doesn\u2019t let you. Instead it alarms you of your blood alcohol content and tells you that it cannot allow you to drive yourself while intoxicated. Given its automated system, it drives you home itself.<\/p>\n<p>Is this not the type of transportation system we\u2019d want as a society keen on safety above all else? I\u2019d surely hope so, because this isn\u2019t just some mere science-fiction tale. It\u2019s a science-fact in the making, which can be seen every year as our cars get smarter and more integrated with our own personal needs and desires. We\u2019ll never be alone \u2014 always watched and observed. That may sound scary, but when compared to hundreds of thousands of people dying every year due to car accidents, I find the above prospect of an automobile-sensor revolution to be \u201cheaven on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The article above was originally published as a blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/proactiontranshuman.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/25\/driving-home-drunk-will-never-be-the-same-again\/\">The Proactionary Transhumanist<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people die every year due to drunk driving. It\u2019s a statistic that\u2019s both appalling and frightening. We all like to party, but then when the party\u2019s over, many still refuse to recognize the danger they not only put themselves in, but others as well when they choose to drive while mentally impaired. Thankfully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51855,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions\/51855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}