Image Recognition
According to a recently-published patent filed by American auto giant Ford, the latest frontier for this colonization is the inside of your car. The company's patent filing describes a system that would equip cars with billboard-reading sensors, allowing cars to scan roadside signs for relevant information and then display them on screens inside smart cars. The patent filing also describes generating hyperlinks for internet-connected cars based on data gathered from segments of billboard images. A screenshot from Ford's patent filing, which describes a method for scanning billboard information and sending it to an in-car display. The most common form of distracted driving—checking text messages—takes a driver's attention away from the road for roughly 5 seconds.