Hyundai visualize a car that undertands and cures your road rage

Horsepower and fuel efficiency are still main focus for automakers, and now so is something else: your state of mind.

Hyundai Motor has revealed a concept cockpit for a car that it states could “monitor the physical and mental state of the driver.”

Identifying a driver’s mindset will help guarantee the “optimum health and mental attitude” for safe driving, Mike O’Brien, vice president at Hyundai Motor Americas, stated Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Tracking heart rate, posture, breathing and facial feature acknowledgment, the automobile would provide “mood bursts” to make the motorist calmer or more alert, Hyundai stated.

The “burst” could consist of adjusting the seat position for either more awareness or relaxation, in addition to changes to the warmth of the car’s lighting, temperature, music volume as well as the scents of lavender or eucalyptus inside the vehicle, Hyundai stated.

In the meantime, the “mood bursts” are restricted to a virtual reality experience, provided at CES.

Other companies are presently taking a similar method. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed similar aspirations in his keynote address the event, stating a car ought to act like an artificially smart co-pilot, using facial recognition, lip reading and gaze tracking to inform whether a motorist is “too aggravated” and has to stopped.

An AAA research study in 2016 discovered that nearly 80 percent of motorists expressed substantial anger, hostility or road rage behind the wheel in the previous year. One such conflict recently made headings after a toddler was shot in an alleged road-rage encounter.