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Alum Pablo Paredes' Autonomous Vehicles Featured in Time

03 Sep, 2020

Alum Pablo Paredes' Autonomous Vehicles Featured in Time

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' work on autonomous vehicles was recently featured in a Time article titled "Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Calm Your Road Rage."

From the article:

In a 2018 study, Paredes and his colleagues found that it’s possible to infer a driver’s muscle tension—a proxy for stress—from the movement of their hands on a car’s steering wheel. They’re now experimenting with cameras that detect neck tension by noting the subtle changes in the angle of a driver’s head as it bobs with the car’s movements.

Read the rest of the article here!