Watching You Watch the Road UC San Diego ’ s Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles ( LISA ) in the Jacobs School of Engineering has developed tools to detect and track driver behavior in full context — what ’ s happening simultaneously to the driver , the vehicle and its environment .
Trivedi has a definitive answer to these questions . “ Here at UC San Diego , we are working on a very different vision of the future ,” says Trivedi . “ One where drivers and occupants feel safe , with driver-assistance technologies to help them and vehicles make better , faster decisions . In other words , systems that support , rather than replace , the driver .”
As director of UC San Diego ’ s Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles ( LISA ), Trivedi leads the development of intelligent technologies that can understand the driver and the surrounding environment to help navigate through chaotic situations and avoid accidents . LISA ’ s aim for intelligent vehicles is what Trivedi calls a “ human-centered , distributed cognitive system ,” in which human drivers and robotic cars cooperate as a team while driving , rather than compete with each other for control of the steering wheel . “ This distributed cognitive system should be able to learn and execute perceptual , cognitive and motor functions in a synergistic manner , where humans and machines both understand the strengths and limits of one another ,” says Trivedi .
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