Detroit Developing Crash-warning Systems For Cars
19 April 2002 - 11:00am
Cutting-edge research aims to improve car safety.
"Engineers have worked for a century to keep cars safe. They've created taillights and padded dashboards; developed multi-airbag interiors and whiplash-proof headrests; simplified gear shifting and invented antilock brakes. By the late '90s, hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D brought them to the ultimate safety solution: crash-warning systems. Detroit had found a way for cars to tell us when danger was imminent."
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You Are About To Crash
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Wired, April 1, 2002
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