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Friday, February 22 2019 - 20:08
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European Union mandates safety technology for cars, vans, trucks and buses
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Seeing Machines Limited, the advanced computer vision technology company that 
designs AI-powered operator monitoring systems to improve transport safety, 
welcomes the outcome of the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee 
where a set of rules were approved to advance safety for all road users in the 
European Union.

The press release issued by the European Parliament on Thursday in Europe 
announced that "driver drowsiness and attention warning" and "advanced driver 
distraction warning" will become mandatory in all vehicles (cars, vans, trucks 
and buses). 

Ken Kroeger, CEO of Seeing Machines commented: "The leadership shown by Europe 
in this move to improve safety, using technology, across all forms of 
road-going transport, is most welcome as governments all over the world grapple 
with serious injuries and fatalities caused by road accidents.

"Seeing Machines is focused on safety outcomes and we have spent the past 
twenty years honing our technology for this very purpose. Our driver monitoring 
technology, already launched in the award-winning General Motors Cadillac CT6 
with Super Cruise, and in current development with a further five automotive 
manufacturers globally, as well as retro-fitted to over 16,000 commercial and 
mining vehicles around the world, is designed to understand the state of the 
driver, to ensure that fatigue and distraction related events and the risks 
associated with that behaviour, are mitigated."

This announcement further reinforces the Euro NCAP roadmap that sees driver 
monitoring introduced into crash assessment protocols from 2020. It is expected 
that the Euro NCAP position will be adopted in other regions including 
South-East Asia and North America.

About Seeing Machines 

Seeing Machines (LSE: SEE), a global company headquartered in Australia, is an 
industry leader in computer vision technologies which enable machines to see, 
understand and assist people. The Company's machine learning vision platform 
has the know-how to deliver real-time identification and understanding of 
drivers through Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis of heads, faces and eyes. 
This insight enables Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), which monitor 
driver/operator identification and attention and can detect drowsiness and 
distraction across multiple transport sectors. 

Seeing Machines develops DMS for the Automotive, Commercial Fleet, Aviation, 
Rail and Off-Road markets. The Company has offices in Australia, USA, Europe 
and Asia, and delivers multi-platform solutions to industry leaders in each 
vertical.

DMS is becoming a core safety technology integrated into ADAS (Advanced Driver 
Assistance Systems) offerings for the automotive industry, particularly with 
the development of semi-autonomous and self-driving cars. DMS is also 
increasingly seen to be an integral safety feature across the Commercial 
Transport & Logistics industry globally. www.seeingmachines.com 

Media enquiries: sophie.nicoll@seeingmachines.com or +61-419-149-683

SOURCE  Seeing Machines Limited
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