Jerusalem – Imagine a car that can stop itself before hitting another vehicle or pedestrian. Well, a device being developed in Israel could transform driving habits forever.
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You’re out for your morning drive to work. There’s little traffic, the roads are clear. All of a sudden you’re distracted from your driving, and a pedestrian has crossed right in front of your car. You have no time to break.
But this is no ordinary car.
It is fitted out with a special alert system that warns you when you are driving too close to a pedestrian, or a car. And if you don’t react to the warning immediately, the system breaks for you.
Yonatan Samet, Mobileye R&D Project manager, said, “This system actually sees what’s going on on the road. It can see where the lane marks are, it can see where the vehicles are, it can see where the pedestrians are, what the pedestrians are about to do. Are they about to cross the road? Are they going to remain on the sidewalk and be safe and protected? This is a system that saves lives.”
A digital camera is connected to the system and reads what’s happening on the road in front of it. It can differentiate between cars and pedestrians from some 35 meters away. It will sound off as quickly as 2.5 seconds before an impending crash, leaving drivers enough time to react.
The device also recognizes lane marks. It sends a warning beep when the car swerves out of its lane, so a sleepy driver can be instantly woken up.
The technology is already available in vehicles produced by a leading car maker.
When it hits the market next year, the device is likely to cost upwards of $1,000.
Drivers are going to have to ask themselves if saving a life is worth the cost, or if they should just be paying more attention behind the wheel.
soon they will make it mandatory in every car. I wonder how many mistakes it will make before it really works the way it is supposed to?
All new infinity models have a similiar system
So if you’re driving down a road, and someone is tailgating you, and a deer jumps in front of your car, and you have to choose between hitting the deer or having a major auto accident with another vehicle with people in each car…
this new device will make the all important decision for you by breaking automatically and saving the deer when you don’t, “react to the warning immediately. ” Great.
Nice backdrop of the Grand BELZ Shul in Yerushalayim
It can see what the pedestrians are about to do!!! Let’s see it do that in New York where pedestrians play chicken with vehicles and stand beyond the parked cars waiting to dart out with a hairsbreadth of space and a miliseconds notice!
it seems good but i need a system so when my car is about to get hit , it does the
impossible
It’s fashionable in Israel to take credit for all new technology. This is a variation of the old saying that Americas would invented something, the Japanese would copy it, and the Russians would claim that they invented it first. I guess Russian have now been replaced by Israelis. I drove a Volvo test car with this technology more than a year ago on a makeshift test track. Drove head on towards a barrier and without touching the brakes the car came to a sudden stop on its own about a foot from the barrier.
Now Finally the chicken can cross the road
How exciting, now I can read and text while walking without even having to pick up my head even once!
I have this system now, without the braking part, just the warning part.
It’s unreliable at best and a huge pain in the behind at worst. Half the time I shut it off so it should stop annoying me.
Also, their main selling point was that if it saves u one fender-bender it’s already k’dai. But it doesnt help for those, because the second u tap on the brakes, it stops functioning cuz it assumes you’re in control of things. So in stop-and-go traffic it doesnt work, and thats here most fender-benders happen.
Wait for the 3rd-gen technology, maybe they’l have figured stuff out by then.