Automatic Drowsiness Alert and Lane Change System

Abstract

Driver fatigue while travelling for large distances and at night is the most common cause of accidents because of the driver's loss of attention or slow reaction. In order to solve this problem, it will be necessary to create a system that would be able to check the state of the driver's health and react accordingly. In this paper, an algorithm that would be capable of detecting the level of sleep of the driver and make lane switching has been proposed. A computer camera would constantly be monitoring the driver's eyesight. Due to this technology, the driver's eyes would be under control, and his/her fatigued condition can be detected in order to warn the driver about sound and lights. In case the driver ignores the warning, this technology would be activated by switching to the lane where the process of control is performed by the Arduino Uno microcontroller.