Mandatory driver impairment sensors clear a funding hurdle, but are they ready?

A federal law requiring impairment-detection devices inside all new cars survived a recent push to strip its funding but remains stalled by questions about whether the technology is ready.
IEEE

Plantar Flexion Muscle Force Estimation With a Soft Wearable Pneumatic Sensor System

Abstract: In numerous fields that analyze the human body from a biomechanical perspective, the force of muscles could only be indirectly estimated through multiple hierarchical levels, and the ...
IEEE

Robust Payload Recognition Based on Sensor-Over-Muscle-Independence Deep Learning for the Control of Exoskeletons

Abstract: Force myography (FMG) can detect changes in the muscle volume which can be interpreted to recognize human intention. FMG data, however, is highly dependent on the placement of sensors over ...
Digital Trends

New sensor tech may help cars and planes detect black ice before it’s too late

Winter driving is often a white-knuckle experience, primarily because of the dangers you cannot see. Black ice has a nasty habit of looking exactly like wet pavement right up until the moment your ...
Drive

Where is the outside temperature sensor located on your car?

Whenever the temperature climbs, we all see social media posts of car dashboards offering blisteringly hot temperature claims, but how accurate are they? As the big question is, really, where is the ...