Intrusive car monitoring system detects passengers' age, gender

Your friend's car is checking you out. No, really.

Israeli AI company Eyesight Technologies released CabinSense on Thursday, just in time to scan and analyze your Valentine's Day date. The software is an occupancy monitoring system, which takes similar tech from its distraction detection system, but moves the focus from the driver to the passengers.

This means for everyone who gets into a CabinSense-enabled car, your face is scanned and the car knows what you're doing. Mostly, it "knows" that you're there. Immediately, your age, gender, and position are recorded.

For regular passengers, you can enroll in the program, so the system will be able to quickly recognize you and recall you from is database. That can be convenient with preferences like the temperature, seat adjustments, or media choices being offered when you sit down. Read more...

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