BIG BROTHER: GM To Start Installing Interior Cams To Hinder Texting While Driving

A decade ago, you'd assume that the idiot on the highway in front of you weaving back and forth across the yellow lines was drunk. Today, there's a pretty good chance that they're just trying to navigate some particularly complicated emoji. GM wants to stop the madness, and it's betting on eye-tracking to do so.

In an effort to curb driver distraction, GM has announced that it will install half a million eye-tracking devices in cars over the next few years. It'll be the first major automaker to do so, and according to a report by The Financial Times (paywall), it's buying the technology from an Australian company called Seeing Machines.
 

Sciros - 9/2/2014 5:10:53 PM

+2 Boost

Should be fairly easily circumvented by pulling a fuse or using some masking tape.

ImTiredOfBeingRightALLTHETIME - 9/2/2014 6:54:03 PM

+2 Boost

Big Brother really wants retinal scans, fingerprints on the steering wheel, and full biometrics.
You have to start somewhere. And so it begins.

MattDarringer - 9/2/2014 8:22:36 PM

0 Boost

It should be as simple that if your phone is blue toothed to the car that the phone becomes 100% useless.