Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.

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"When you see a face, you scan it, identify if it's friend or foe and make a decision about whether to move forward or avoid it, " said Dr. Barry Kosofsky, chief of neurology at Cornell Medical Center, who was not affiliated with the study.

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