Mercedes-Benz’s Prediction Engine will learn your life – and it’ll be in cars by 2016
Following on from the revelations about Amazon’s plans to send you goods before you know you want to order them, Mercedes-Benz is developing a prediction engine that will know where you want to go as soon as you start up your car.
The car uses an array of sensors to work out who’s driving it – everything from seats that measure your weight to sensors that track how heavy you are on the accelerator. It’ll even monitor which smartphones are in the car to build up a picture of who’s driving and their passengers.
Armed with that information, the car’s Prediction Engine will monitor your driving habits and work out where you want to go, based on who’s in the car, the time of day and the weather.
So if a parent and two children are in the vehicle on a weekday morning, it’s a fairly safe bet that they’re on the school run – and that the parent will be going to work after they drop the kids off. If it’s a rainy weekend evening and there are two adults in the car, they’re likely to be going to the cinema or one of their favourite after-work haunts.
Mercedes reckons that the Prediction Engine will take around two to three weeks to work out where you habitually drive to – and will draw on information from satellites and other connected cars to help you avoid traffic and find the fastest route.
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