Vibrating car seat alert drivers with sense of touch, could prevent accidents

Driving down a busy road, with traffic speeding past you from all sides is always stressing. The driver besides concentrating on the road ahead, has to keep a referring eye on everything happing around, while the blind spot is always confusing. Now, how about a vibrating seat that warns you of approaching vehicles and relieves you of looking around, visual and audio warning systems, thus keeping you free to focus on the road ahead.

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Well, this is what a researcher at Yale University is working on. John Morrell developed a car seat with few cellphone vibration motors, which warns a driver of approaching vehicles by vibrating. Sensors are mounted on to the car that relay information of an approaching vehicle to the vibration motors, which then alerts the driver. When a vehicle approaching from the left is sensed, the left side of the seat vibrates more, and when a vehicle is sensed on the right side, the right side of the seat vibrates harder. The new vibrating car seat could be frustrating, but would, I guess, keep drivers more focused, thereby helping in curbing accidents.

Via: Switched/CoolestGadgets