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Intelligent Co-Pilot Helps You Avoid a Crash

OCT 25, 2012
Mechanical engineers develop a safety system to avoid collisions and keep drivers safe
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Intelligent Co-Pilot Helps You Avoid a Crash

Inside Science Buzzwords:

  1. Semiautonomous - Providing some power to act independently. The “intelligent co-pilot” safety system only takes control of the vehicle when the driver moves out of a safe zone.
  2. Laser rangefinder - A device that uses a laser to measure its distance from another object.
  3. Safe zone - An area free of obstacles based on the measurements from the laser rangefinder.

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