With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.

FORBES: Car Talk

In 2007, an internal report for Transport for London concluded women cyclists are far more likely to be killed by lorries because, unlike men, they tend to obey red lights and wait at junctions in the driver's blind spot.

BBC: Are women cyclists in more danger than men?

And the Tongan blind-side then put his side in deep trouble as he was red-carded following a forearm smash to the face of a Samoan with nine minutes to go.

BBC: Samoa 15-19 Tonga