Cars that steer in direction driver is looking

Methinks this would be VERY dangerous for attractive members of the opposite sex of the driver!

Within days, the planet would be an uglier place!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Fred

My truck already steers in the direction I look. On second thought, maybe that's my fault???

I would kill at least 20 a day.
Wow how many years would it take man to become extinct.
Raul Rojas your a wild man!

I see drivers that cannot seem to carry on a conversation in the car without turning their head 90 degrees to look at the passenger.

Then there's the people that seem to look aimlessly at everything except the road in front of them.

Just think how many accidents this will create as the car suddenly turns 90 degrees to the right, or heads towards the house that the driver decided to look at.

This is just plain frightening.

Why Apologize? Your correct. hahaha.

This definitely is a tremendously bad idea. How do they expect the driver to look only straight, that too, when someone is going on a long drive? How do they come up with this sort of bad ideas?

So everytime you check your six, your car slams into reverse??

I'd rather have the smart road that just steers your car for you, maintaining a safe distance between cars etc etc.

Wouldn't work for me. Most of the time I'm half asleep when driving.

Nuvi1300WTGPS

When you think about those morons who so far ended in lakes or of cliff because "gps made me do it", than just think what will happen, when their car will turn on its own. It will be probably time to build some heavy fences on sides of roads
But it will probably be loved by drunk drivers: "I'm not driving from side to side officer, it is my car on it's own. I'm just looking for parking space."

Well, office, my car suddenly veered off the road because I was looking at an advertisement on a billboard.

I agree! Especially now that heavy overcoat season has ended

Well body shops would be swamped with work

Not a useful feature at all!

A bigger problem is if there's some hazard in the road, your natural reaction is to look at it while swerving away. This system will have you swerve right into it.

Wait and see.

Exactly. A moving animal on the road and a driver in a panic situation? 99 drivers out of 100 would look right at the animal, and continue to track it as it moved, steering the car right towards it or in the path of other vehicles.

Wait and see? Maybe you're right. On the face of it, eyeball steering is such a Capt. Obvious godawful idea for anyone used to a steering wheel that there must be more to it than reported in the story so maybe we are missing something that makes it more plausible. Otherwise it wouldn't have gotten past the brainstorming stage. Either that, or the story's a belated April Fool's joke.

Look at the dollars needed to prove it's a bad idea!

Don't check your blind spot when merging, it could cause you to merge prematurely and resulting in creating the accident you were trying to prevent.

Most attack helicopters move the guns to where the pilot is looking. That scares the ground crews to no end.

The chopper didn't turn, just the turret.

And as a practical driving application, it may well be restricted to selected situations.

For that matter, it may just be a vehicle for testing the technology and not intended as a means to drive for the masses. Concepts, afterall, are often created just to prove an engineering idea and not for public consumption save as a showcase for the product line.

In 1996, for example, Mercedes came out with a slick looking, drive by wire, drive by joystick, vehicle. Yes, it looks slick but I would be loathe to drive using a joystick. They're wonderful for three dimentional navigation, but even private aircraft use wheels on the "stick".

Early motorvehicles had sticks and were eventually replaced by steering wheels... and quite frankly, sometimes you shouldn't try to improve something that works well.

If it ain't broke... don't fix it.

This isn't meant to get into the real world. This is more proof of concept. Hey look at what we can do.

Eyes are a terrible control method (from a Human Factors) perspective.