More than a million people die around the world every year as a result of car crashes, mostly due to driver error. Consequently, amid the many outlandish claims about the world-changing capacity of artificial intelligence, its deployment by the Aim-listed Seeing Machines to slash the number of fatal road accidents is compelling — not least as its technology is already in situ in more than a million vehicles.
Launched in 2000 as a spin-off from the Australian National University, and initially backed by Volvo, Canberra-based Seeing Machines makes monitoring systems that alert drivers to their tiredness or fading attention. It uses AI along with data amassed by monitoring drivers’ behaviour and eye movements over two decades and eight billion kilometres of real driving. Its “driver
