Uncle Sam may want you, but if you're a scientist in Ann Arbor he probably
wants to pay you a nice chunk of change to do some research.
The feds recently announced it will invest $32 million to
further a University of Michigan-based research project to develop an
early-warning system for vehicle collisions.
The crash-warning system would alert drivers when they are
about to leave the roadway, in danger of hitting another vehicle while changing
lanes or are at risk of crashing into the vehicle ahead of them. The U-M Transportation Research Institute
received Phase II funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to continue
testing the technology.
The first of the two phases of research involved designing
and developing the system. The second phase will include field testing the
system in vehicles both big and small over the next year.
Source: University
of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke
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