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ArticleApp prototype provides wrong-direction alert
The wrong-way-driver alert uses car-to-x technologies for its warnings(Photo: Technical University Clausthal)Each year there are roughly 1,800 reports of drivers heading the wrong way on Germany's autobahn network. When this leads to accidents, they are often serious. One in six people involved in a resulting collision is killed.The Technical ...
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ArticleEyes only, no hands: steering a car with mind power
Wearing a helmut that captures eye movement, the driver no longer needs his hands for steeringScientists at Berlin’s Free University have developed software that lets drivers steer a vehicle using only their eyes.The experiment uses eyeDriver software, which is a prototype application designed by computer scientists at Freie Universitaet Berlin ...
