Every hour of every day, someone is getting into a car accident. Some people get into car accidents because they are too busy talking on their cell phones while for other people, the reason is because they were distracted by something else such as other people or children in the vehicle. Car accidents can also be cause by things such as inclement weather, bad driving habits such as changing lanes without signaling or following too closely. One of the major reasons that people get into accidents, however, is because they get upset. Each day when you are on the road, look around at the other drivers. For a simple test, just drive the speed limit in the far right-hand land on a highway and count how many people fly by you on the left. Increase your speed so that you're five miles over the speed limit. Then increase it to ten. You would think that once you were ten miles over the posted speed limit (which is a traffic violation/breaking the law) that you wouldn't see many, if any, people passing you. Wrong. It's not surprising to find that many people break the rules and it's usually because they are in a rush when they don't need to be OR they let their emotions get the best of them.

How many people do you know (yourself included) who have gotten into an accident because they were having an emotional conversation with someone who was either seated in the vehicle with them or who they were on the phone with? For example, if someone called you while you were at work and told you that someone close to you had suddenly died. How would you react when you got behind the wheel of your car? We see it all the time with women who are in labor and are being driven by their partners or family or friends to the hospital. However, are most things really worth the risk of making a poor decision that could wind up hurting or killing someone else.

A Stanford University professor is working on a technology for cars in which a vehicle will be able to talk to you and detect emotions, thereby eliciting a response. Sound familiar? It should. I think we all recognize it as Knight Rider. However, there are some skeptics who are out there as well as some kinks that still need to be worked out. For instance, many people aren't sure how they would feel if they had a vehicle that talked to them. For example, studies are being conducted with drivers in simulators. As the simulator is able to detect that the driver is upset or driving recklessly, it will say things such as, "You're driving a bit fast, why don't you slow down" Phrases such as these uttered to agitated drivers as they are driving have actually proven to just make them more angry. At the end of one simulation, one of the drivers became so enraged with the computer that they actually got into an accident!

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