2007-06-27
Emoticars
The revelation of the face makes a demand. The face-to-face, the encounter with another, is a privileged phenomenon. Levinas teaches us that we are most human in the encounter with the Other. But what happens when we sit in a car? We are armored. We don't see the face of the other. The other doesn't see our face. We can't smile. We can't wink. We can't even give an angry look. We are not there. The other is not human anymore.
So, wouldn't life be much better if a car could express emotion? Imagine a car that senses our emotion and smiles, or winks, or frowns. It could swing a little on a happy song when we're happy. Or even better, it would even smile at us when we are sad to make us happy again.
Really with emoticars our life would be much better. A traffic jam would be less boring. It would be a social gathering with smiles and gestures. Less aggression on the roads. More relaxed people.
So, wouldn't life be much better if a car could express emotion? Imagine a car that senses our emotion and smiles, or winks, or frowns. It could swing a little on a happy song when we're happy. Or even better, it would even smile at us when we are sad to make us happy again.
Really with emoticars our life would be much better. A traffic jam would be less boring. It would be a social gathering with smiles and gestures. Less aggression on the roads. More relaxed people.
# posted by Sander @ 22:08 
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Ok Sander, nou sla je echt een beetje door... Ik vind die gezichten in de trein al zo depressie opwekkend.
Ik stem voor een wet die verplicht de kinderen uit de straat de auto's naar eigen inzicht mogen beschilderen. Dat is misschien wat haalbaarder en een stuk gezelliger op straat.
Ik stem voor een wet die verplicht de kinderen uit de straat de auto's naar eigen inzicht mogen beschilderen. Dat is misschien wat haalbaarder en een stuk gezelliger op straat.
Actually there is an algorithm which transforms an adult face into an (approximation of) a young, child's face of the same person. This algorithm was supposedly used in creating the design of the Reneault Twingo: they took a regular car (adult) and applied the algorithm. It involves increasing the relative size of the eyes and the forehead, and reducing the space between mouth, nose, chin; among other things. Or so I've been told...
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