Startup Unveils AI Platform To Monitor Drivers By ‘Reading’ Minds

Israeli startup CorrActions is unveiling a new AI-driven platform to determine a driver’s cognitive state – whether they are sleepy or inebriated or even simply distracted – based on micro actions that reveal brain functioning. 

The software integrates into a car’s existing operating system, working passively in the background. 

The platform also uses hardware already in the vehicle to determine the driver’s cognitive state via their micro movements, gathering data from motion sensors placed throughout the car – including in the steering wheel and seats. 

It does not, however, use any kind of camera or other visual equipment to protect the privacy of those in the vehicle. 

The platform uses the micro motion data to determine the root cause of the impairment of the driver, and give the intensity of it a score.

Based on the cause and the score, the software recommends to the vehicle what kind of action to take in real time in order to compensate. These actions, such as increasing the braking distance of the car or reducing its speed, are designed to to maintain the safety envelope of the driver, regardless of their impairments.

“Using CorrActions’ Driver NeuroMonitoring System can contribute to a 70% reduction in fatalities caused by intoxicated driving. Moreover, it can result in $5 billion savings annually,” said CorrActions CEO Ilan Reingold. 

“Given our software’s close-to-zero false positives rate, its high accuracy, and its unobtrusive nature, drivers will quickly accept and trust the solution which will contribute to widespread adoption.”