GERMANY – Researchers create automatic vehicle safety device that detects accidents before they happen
April 1st, 2008
By Monica Dobie
University researchers helped develop the air bag - a vehicle safety device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives - but now they have created a prototype that protects drivers and passengers, just before a collision occurs.
Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability has teamed up with major automobile manufacturers including Volkswagen, Toyota, Skoda, Fiat and Renault to develop the device. It has a multi-directional camera monitor system surveying 20-metres around a vehicle that can identify a side ...
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