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See the road. Know the driver. Drive safe.

PulseDrive is an open-source, AI-assisted driver safety platform designed to bring modern sobriety verification and intelligent driver monitoring into a transparent, community-driven system. Built for research, fleet innovation, and next-generation automotive safety concepts, PulseDrive combines breath-based alcohol detection with real-time identity and attention monitoring. Its modular design separates safety-critical systems from AI analytics, allowing it to remain reliable, auditable, and adaptable for many different vehicle environments.

At startup, PulseDrive uses a fuel-cell alcohol sensor paired with CO₂ and pressure-based breath validation to confirm a genuine human breath sample before vehicle authorization. This helps prevent spoofing attempts while improving measurement reliability. Once verified, the system can allow ignition through a secure authorization layer while keeping all core decisions deterministic and independent from machine learning models. This approach prioritizes safety, predictability, and compatibility with future automotive standards.

During operation, PulseDrive’s advanced vision module uses dual RGB and infrared cameras to monitor the driver in real time. Edge AI systems can verify that the same approved driver remains behind the wheel, while also analyzing gaze direction, head position, distraction patterns, and signs of drowsiness using industry-inspired monitoring methods such as PERCLOS. Because processing occurs locally on supported edge devices like NVIDIA Jetson or Intel NPU hardware, the system can operate with minimal cloud dependency while maintaining strong privacy controls.

PulseDrive also includes a secure mobility layer designed for safe vehicle integration through read-only CAN bus monitoring or OBD-II abstraction interfaces. Rather than interfering with a moving vehicle, the system focuses on safe pre-start authorization and event awareness. Local encrypted storage, optional event-based cloud sync, tamper-evident logging, and signed firmware update support help make the platform suitable for serious experimentation and long-term development.

As an AGPL-3.0+ licensed project, PulseDrive invites developers, engineers, researchers, and safety advocates to collaborate on an open alternative to proprietary driver safety systems. Its feature set makes it suitable for personal vehicle prototypes, fleet compliance tools, academic study, and future manufacturer integration concepts where sobriety verification and intelligent driver monitoring may become standard safety technologies.