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ARTIFICIAL PASSENGER
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INTRODUCTION
Recently a study revealed that Driver
fatigue causes at least 100,000 crashes, 1,500
fatalities, and 71,000 injuries annually,
according to estimates prepared by the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
which estimated further that the annual cost
to the economy due to property damage and
lost productivity is at least $12.5 billion.
Researchers like Dr.kanevsky , Dr.wlodek
zadrozny, set to work on an invention that
would relieve the loneliness of long
distance solo drivers and that would help
in cutting the figure of accidents to certain
extent. Such software is nick named as an
ARTIFICIAL PASSENGER (AP).
ORGANISATION
IBM has developed a prototype of AP that
holds a conversation with a driver, telling
jokes and asking questions intended to
determine whether the driver can respond
alertly enough. The company(IBM) is in
discussions with people in the car industry
about developing the system in part as a
segment of a broader platform for artificial
intelligence devices. Assuming the IBM
approach, an artificial passenger would use a
microphone for the driver and a speech
generator and the vehicle's audio speakers to
converse with the driver. The conversation
would be based on a personalized profile of the
driver.
ANALYSER
Driver analyzer comprises:
input means for receiving an input data stream,
including voice and text data; a time evaluator,
coupled to said input means, for time stamping
said voice and text data corresponding to when
the driver receives a voice prompt and when the
driver answers, and for evaluating the length of
time to respond to an inquiry. An answer
evaluator, coupled to say input means, for
evaluating said input data stream, determining
whether said input data stream matches a
predetermined set of possible answers, and
grading said input data stream on a scale.
CONVERSATIONAL PLANNER
An intelligent text
processor, coupled to an input of said
conversational planner, for producing various
types of dialog to be considered by said
conversational planner to be included in the
dialog with the driver; and a car media, coupled
to say intelligent text processor, being operative
to produce audio programming information
based on a plurality of sources. Car media
comprises means for receiving programming
information from a plurality of sources. The
system further comprising means for recognizing
a certain word or series of words in said
programming information, to allow predefined
audio programming to be selected and
transferred to said conversational planner.
CONLUSION
In future we might see the cars
equipped with artificial passengers moving
on the roads whose main objective is to cut
the figure of accidents which occur due to
the drivers fatigue , to a greater extent
The described AP fulfills all the objectives
and has all the advantages .Many modifications
may take place such as the dialog system can
be portable or a handheld device, and be
easily adapted to other applications. The
dialog system will be applicable to other
situations where the individual(s) must stay
alert, such as security guards, operators at
nuclear plants or other types of plants or
manufacturing facilities, pilots of airplanes,
trains, ships and so on.