Emerging Technology: Give your Dashboard the Finger

A new emerging technology is being developed for drivers to use their dashboard without taking their hands off the wheel and keeping their eyes on the road. They are still in the prototype interphase which uses several sensors to detect the movement of the right index finger as it disrupts an electric field. This project was based on a musical instrument that can be played without being touched. There are electromagnetic sensors located on the dashboard that detect finger movements which allows the driver to hold the wheel in a recommended ten to two position. Researchers used car stimulator and glued antennas on the dashboard right behind the wheel.The system so far has an 86% accuracy for 10 gesture movements. They also will add a speech recognition to allow people to dictate text messages in the car but they don't want to encourage drivers to do anything else other then drive.