Importantly, the data is then translated into a driver warning when a hazardous traffic scenario occurs such as an impending collison at a blind intersection or a car changing lanes in your blind spot.
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When a wired car is in the blind spot of one of GM's test Cadillacs, an icon of a car lights up in the side mirror.
Google was on hand with a short film of a legally blind driver taking an unmanned car for a spin.
If we will have driverless cars in the future, why are we spending time and money developing a car that a blind person can drive?
Over the next couple of years, such sensors will expand their range, to check for obstacles entering a car's blind spots and issue warnings to drivers if a collision seems imminent.
If one can believe that we will have fully autonomous, driverless cars in the future, which many people do, then there is absolutely no reason why one should doubt the possibility of a car driven by the blind safely on public roads.
Volvo says the coming C30 will take cues from the recently unveiled concept coupe called 3CC, and the a safety concept car Volvo displayed in 2001, which included features like rearview mirrors that alert drivers when a car is in his blind spot or too close for comfort.
Like many others, you have a blind spot when it comes to the car.
The blind man is walking in front of a car and you do not have a duty to stop him absent some relation between you.
Toyota's 2014 Tundra pickup will come with a standard backup camera, and an optional blind-spot system that can warn a Tundra driver when a car is about to pass.
Posner believes his car could affordably reach the showrooms in 10 or 15 years, but that a fully blind person still wouldn't be able to drive it.
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.
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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