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SEAT is experimenting with technology that studies a driver to detect if they’re falling asleep 

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Spanish car manufacturer Seat is working on technology to track a driver’s eyes and spot signs of drowsiness.  The firm has partnered with an Israeli firm that has built an algorithm than scrutinises a driver’s eye openness, angle of vision, blink rate and head position. Eyesight Technologies uses cameras and sensors and combines this with … Read more

ROSS CLARK: Life expectancy is NOT falling because of austerity. It’s just we’re fatter

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We have heard the mantra so many times over the years that it must be true: ‘Tory austerity’ is killing off the poor. Listeners to Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday will have heard this same old narrative trotted out by Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology at University College London, whose review into ‘health inequalities’, … Read more