Toyota to highlight reading of driver emotions at Tokyo show

Will it also be able to tell when people intend to run red lights?

Not much use if the car is made from sub-standard Kobe steel!

Toyota Motor Corp manager Makoto Okabe told reporters Monday that the use of artificial intelligence means cars may get to know drivers as human beings by analyzing their facial expressions, driving habits and social media use.

Social media use? What?

learning their lifestyles and preferences.

And selling that data to companies like Cambridge Analytica? Scary, scary stuff....

Scary stuff indeed.

analyzing their facial expressions, driving habits and social media use

and recording everything I say in the car? how about no? I don't want Toyota or any other big brother to spy on me

It reminds me a scene of Tom Cruise's movie Minority report.

Pretty soon every damn thought we say and every damn thing we do will be logged, recorded, shared, sold, analyzed and fed to giant "security agencies" and corporations for their various nefarious ends. Stop the world, I wanna get off.

Those kind of features may lead to car rage (where car owners attack their own cars)!

How about introducing software that detects texting or internet use whilst driving and sends an electric charge to the lower regions whilst also scrambling the internet signal. Now that would be useful