A research team at the Nottingham Trent University is working on a new safety system to alert sleepy drivers and save thousand of lives. The idea that this research team has proposed and is working on is simple; monitor the driver's heart rate and alert the driver if he/she begins to doze off. They plan on making this happen by incorporating sensors into the car seats. A UK company, Plessey Semiconductors, is collaborating with the university on this project and has been successful in making use of capacitive sensors that were mounted on a driver's seat and were able to measure and relay the cardiac signals of the driver.
