Auto Industry and Lawmakers Call for Driver Monitoring Systems to Improve Safety

Publication Date
April 28, 2021
Category
In the Media

MIT AgeLab's Bryan Reimer was quoted by author Benjamin Preston in Consumer Reports

...There is strong evidence that camera-based driver monitoring works, says Bryan Reimer, who heads up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium, an academic-industry partnership supported by Consumer Reports.

“The AVT Consortium has been collecting naturalistic data from vehicles with and without camera-based driver monitoring systems for several years,” Reimer says, adding that camera-based monitoring systems, paired with escalating inattentiveness warnings, help shorten the amount of time distracted drivers take their eyes away from the road. Reimer called for camera-based systems in Level 2-equipped vehicles last year, and he says the principles highlighted in the Alliance’s statement are a good basis for improving motor vehicle safety.

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