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The speed of cars has increased and now a days car safety has become a huge problem with all the destructions. This page will cover some of the new feathers car companies have implemented and there possible problems. Allow looking at the not so distant fetcher of car control. With answers coming from the master of tech Google in the self driving car they made but sadly do not plan to produce. Moseley do to the risk and lack of car making history.
Blind Spot Detection System
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BLIS™ (Blind Spot Information System) with
Cross Traffic Alert
Ford’s recently introduced Cross Traffic Alert feature will help warn drivers of approaching traffic while backing out by using two radar sensors to detect moving objects within 65 feet from either side of the vehicle. Two warnings are given: an indicator light illuminates in the corresponding outside mirror and an audible alert is sounded. The feature works in
conjunction with Ford’s radar-based Blind-Spot Monitoring System, utilizing this system’s two multiple beam radar modules, which are packaged in the rear quarter panels – one per side. The radar identifies when a vehicle enters the defined blind spot zone and illuminates an indicator light on the corresponding sideview mirror providing a warning that a vehicle is approaching.
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Cross Traffic Alert
Ford’s recently introduced Cross Traffic Alert feature will help warn drivers of approaching traffic while backing out by using two radar sensors to detect moving objects within 65 feet from either side of the vehicle. Two warnings are given: an indicator light illuminates in the corresponding outside mirror and an audible alert is sounded. The feature works in
conjunction with Ford’s radar-based Blind-Spot Monitoring System, utilizing this system’s two multiple beam radar modules, which are packaged in the rear quarter panels – one per side. The radar identifies when a vehicle enters the defined blind spot zone and illuminates an indicator light on the corresponding sideview mirror providing a warning that a vehicle is approaching.
By Ford Link http://media.ford.com/pdf/Drive_smart_existtec.pdf
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Now his is an amazing system but for throws how did not get the Blind Spot Detection System or want it you can order a universal kit for $200 from Sonic Electronic and other sites and system. Just remember the driver is still responsible even if the Blind Spot Detection System has a problem.
Google's Self Driving Car
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There’s something unnerving about going for a drive on a crowded freeway with a guy who talks with his hands. But Chris Urmson didn’t seem the least bit fazed about taking his hands off the wheel (or his feet off the pedals) as we motored south on Silicon Valley’s Highway 101 at 65 miles per hour, so I tried to relax, too.
Urmson is the leader of Google’s driverless car project and he was giving me a demonstration of the technology that has the entire auto industry buzzing. The car we were riding in was a white LexusRX450h outfitted with a $65,000 laser sensor on the roof, and other gear that included radar sensors in the front and rear bumpers, a high-def camera looking out from the windshield, and another looking inward at the passengers – about $100,000 worth of extra technology in all. It’s all pulling in massive amounts of data. The laser, for instance, takes 1.5 million range measurements per second.So far, Google has logged 500,000 miles of autonomous driving. Urmson explained that right now, engineers are working to perfect single-lane highway driving, but that with the right programming, Google’s car could be driven under any circumstances.
By Forbes link http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/03/21/no-hands-no-feet-my-unnerving-ride-in-googles-driverless-car/
Urmson is the leader of Google’s driverless car project and he was giving me a demonstration of the technology that has the entire auto industry buzzing. The car we were riding in was a white LexusRX450h outfitted with a $65,000 laser sensor on the roof, and other gear that included radar sensors in the front and rear bumpers, a high-def camera looking out from the windshield, and another looking inward at the passengers – about $100,000 worth of extra technology in all. It’s all pulling in massive amounts of data. The laser, for instance, takes 1.5 million range measurements per second.So far, Google has logged 500,000 miles of autonomous driving. Urmson explained that right now, engineers are working to perfect single-lane highway driving, but that with the right programming, Google’s car could be driven under any circumstances.
By Forbes link http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/03/21/no-hands-no-feet-my-unnerving-ride-in-googles-driverless-car/
The Google car self driving system still requires lots of information of the road before they can dive all the roads and stander for the systems and making them affordability and usable.
Volvo Making the World Safer
Volvo is working on safety by braking the cars in emergency situations possibly saving lots of lives and money.
Analysis
A distraction is anything that takes a driver’s attention from driving the vehicle and reacting to changing events. To make it simple, a distraction is anything that takes your eyes off the road, your mind off the road, or your hands off the wheel. So when you think about a distraction while driving it can fit into more than one category and something like eating is visual, mentally and physically using all three.
Distracted driving is a huge problem that not many Americans pay attention to “In 2011, 3,331 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 3,267 in 2010. An additional, 387,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 416,000 injured in 2010.” (http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html) If people would focus on driving and less on eating shaving and taking on their phones many insanities lives could be saved.
The two basic parts of the distraction problem are the attentional demands of the distracting task and the frequency with which drivers choose to multitask. Task demands relate to the amount of visual, mental and physical required to perform the task. The other issue is how often drivers engage in the task. Putting those two concepts together and even easy task can chose a fatal crash if the person does the task most of their driving time.
“Cell phone distraction fatal crashes reported by states. For instance, in 2011, Tennessee reported 93 fatal crashes that involved cell phone use, but New York, a state with a much larger population, reported only one. Texas reported 40, but its neighboring state Louisiana reported none.”( http://news.yahoo.com/recent-analysis-indicates-cell-phone-distracted-driving-crashes-190700838.html) As a part of cell phone distraction the public should be made more aware that cell phone involved fatal crashes mostly not accurately being reported.
The best way to end distracted driving is to educate all driving in Americans about the danger of not giving driving your undivided attention. As the cares have more feather there are a lot more distractions that drivers won’t care because it is difficult to see how bad you drive when you are not even focused on driving.
Distracted driving is a huge problem that not many Americans pay attention to “In 2011, 3,331 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 3,267 in 2010. An additional, 387,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 416,000 injured in 2010.” (http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html) If people would focus on driving and less on eating shaving and taking on their phones many insanities lives could be saved.
The two basic parts of the distraction problem are the attentional demands of the distracting task and the frequency with which drivers choose to multitask. Task demands relate to the amount of visual, mental and physical required to perform the task. The other issue is how often drivers engage in the task. Putting those two concepts together and even easy task can chose a fatal crash if the person does the task most of their driving time.
“Cell phone distraction fatal crashes reported by states. For instance, in 2011, Tennessee reported 93 fatal crashes that involved cell phone use, but New York, a state with a much larger population, reported only one. Texas reported 40, but its neighboring state Louisiana reported none.”( http://news.yahoo.com/recent-analysis-indicates-cell-phone-distracted-driving-crashes-190700838.html) As a part of cell phone distraction the public should be made more aware that cell phone involved fatal crashes mostly not accurately being reported.
The best way to end distracted driving is to educate all driving in Americans about the danger of not giving driving your undivided attention. As the cares have more feather there are a lot more distractions that drivers won’t care because it is difficult to see how bad you drive when you are not even focused on driving.