{"id":2408,"date":"2019-09-22T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T22:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2019-09-22T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T22:56:25","slug":"fords-impressive-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/fords-impressive-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s Impressive New Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-extremetech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1HcmXQAyw3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/132247-this-smart-car-locks-out-calls-and-texts-but-only-when-it-senses-heavy-traffic\">Ford smart car locks your phone when you&#8217;re stressed or distracted<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Ford smart car locks your phone when you&#8217;re stressed or distracted&#8221; &#8212; ExtremeTech\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/132247-this-smart-car-locks-out-calls-and-texts-but-only-when-it-senses-heavy-traffic\/embed#?secret=1HcmXQAyw3\" data-secret=\"1HcmXQAyw3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFord wants to shut off access to your cellphone and texting while driving but only when the highway is jammed and you\u2019ve got enough to do already. Biometric sensors in the seat and steering wheel measure stresses on the driver, while sonar, radar and cameras measure traffic flow around the car. The data feeds into a \u201cdriver workload estimator\u201d algorithm that determines when you, personally, reach sensory overload. It temporarily sets a Do Not Disturb flag on your cellphone; inbound calls are shunted to voicemail and texts aren\u2019t announced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Take: I was very impressed by what Ford was able to do, and respect them for thinking outside of the box to tackle this issue. Not only is one of the world\u2019s major car companies making an effort to end distracted driving, like Apple and Google have started working on in the tech field, but they are also incorporating new technology to measure the wellbeing of the passengers. They have acknowledged the presence of a sensory overload. They have broken down human distraction into an equation, and I believe they can apply their findings to multiple fields aside from phones and driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFord wants to shut off access to your cellphone and texting while driving but only when the highway is jammed and you\u2019ve got enough to do already. Biometric sensors in the seat and steering wheel measure stresses on the driver, while sonar, radar and cameras measure traffic flow around the car. The data feeds into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}