JAKARTA: Asri Anjani and Prayogo Bintang, mechanical engineering students of the University of Brawijaya in Malang, East Java, have created a device they claim is capable of preventing road accidents caused by drowsy drivers. The device uses a heart rate sensor, which is put on a driver’s wrist, and another panel placed on the bottom of the driver, which will vibrate and squeeze the user if he or she is detected becoming drowsy. The device detects if the heart pulse is approaching that rate,” Asri said while conducting a test of the device at the university’s campus on Wednesday. Asri Anjani (right), a mechanical engineering student from the Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, examines the driver drowsiness detection device she and fellow student Prayogo Bintang have invented, in Malang on Wednesday, June 21. The students said they created the device due to concerns over the high rate of accidents involving cars and motorcycles.

Source: thestar June 22, 2017 01:18 UTC