The Artificial Passenger is a telematic device, developed by IBM, that interacts verbally with a driver to reduce the likelihood of them falling asleep at the controls of a vehicle.
[2] Whereas, Telematics device perform a range of functions by gathering vehicle location and activity data, and turning this into business insight.
[3][4] The Artificial Passenger may also be integrated with wireless services to provide weather and road information, driving directions, and other such notifications systems.
IBM suggests that this system be located on a server and accessed through the cars' wireless technologies.
IBM also says they are working on a "quasi-NLU" that uses fewer resources from the CPU and can be used inside the car.
[6] The DM works with questions asked by the driver such as "How far is The Gallatin Field Airport from here?"
IBM is working on developing a system that recognizes where the driver is and acknowledge the regional diction used in that area.
[6] IBM states through much experimentation that the speech recognition is very accurate but the process has not fully been refined and still has kinks with in it.