RE: Merc develops fatigue detection

RE: Merc develops fatigue detection

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munky

5,328 posts

248 months

Monday 27th November 2006
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I thought this had already been done, about a year or two ago? I've definitely read about it somewhere before.

Twincam16

27,646 posts

258 months

Monday 27th November 2006
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I've got a fatigue detection system that works brilliantly.

It's called 'Y.A.W.N.'(Your Anti-Waking Notation), and when it happens, a thing called a brain makes me find a way to stop driving for a bit.

Similarly, I beat Merc to self-applying wipers with a system called 'F.I.N.G.E.R.S.' (Fcensored It's Not Great, Effect Rain-wiper Switch'). When it's raining, this system operates a switch that turns them on. Magic.

Displaying an amazing piece of foresight, I also beat Merc to an automated emergency braking system with a little gadget called 'T.O.E.S.' (Trouble? Oh! Emergency Stop). Amazingly, if there's trouble ahead, this gadget applies the brakes in a swift yet smooth and aggressive motion that stops the car safely.

Also, I have made amazing discoveries in the field of traction control with a system called 'C.A.R.C.O.N.T.R.O.L.' (Can Actually Retain Control On Normal Tarmac, Right Or Left'). It's brilliantly simple, but unfortunately Merc went down a complicated and unsatisfying route.

Unfortunately, the reason why Mercedes have to come up with systems like this is because most of their top-end, fully-specced cars are equipped with 'D.E.A.D.' (Driver Evidently A Dunce), a problem that Mercedes, Volvo and Audi have been working around for ages.

dinkel

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26,951 posts

258 months

Monday 27th November 2006
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Sam, don't do this.



And something else: if you really think there's a way back . . . There isn't.

That's exactly the reason I'll keep my ratty Civic. Or buy a late 70s Merc mabe . . .

Twincam16

27,646 posts

258 months

Monday 27th November 2006
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dinkel said:
Sam, don't do this.



And something else: if you really think there's a way back . . . There isn't.

That's exactly the reason I'll keep my ratty Civic. Or buy a late 70s Merc mabe . . .


???

skyedriver

17,861 posts

282 months

Monday 27th November 2006
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Mr.Flo said:
I thought Volvo is already developing such systems?


Yes, it is called an airbag in the face and at 50mph it sure as hell wakes you up again.

Had one fitted to my previuos Volvo!

jas16

378 posts

232 months

Sunday 3rd December 2006
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dont trust this much electronics