Jose Ignacio Herroro Zarzosa, an industrial engineer at GMV in Spain, is currently working on a system that ties in GPS, in-car data, car-to-car and car-to-Internet WiFi to help predict crashes. The Collision Warning System takes current data and predicts where the cars will be in a few seconds later. If it forsees an accident, a warning light will alert the driver. So far the the system can forsee an accident two to five seconds before it happens.
Source: Discovery
This sounds all well and good, but it also sounds like a step closer to “Minority Report.”
Accidents happen very very quickly. I dont understand how this can warn you before it’s happened, and even if there was a second or two to let the driver know, it’s too late.
This is another frightening step towards computer driven cars.
Has anyone seen the film Children od Men? It is not worth the score on IMDb, but the cars in that film predict crash:)