John Dolan, principal systems scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, said it reminds him of an instance when a man suffering an aneurysm lost control of his car and killed two women walking in a park. Dolan believes that a car that can recognize when a driver is incapacitated, and automatically switch into an autonomous mode, may be the next step. While it would involve limiting false alarms, Dolan said that he has “been gaining experience on how to do that kind of thing with existing advanced driver-assist features.”
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