Volvo truck collision warning system

[alans1100]

Received in an e-mail this morning

"I wonder if the vehicle was fully loaded, what the outcome would be."
 
http://www.wimp.com/emergencysystem/

[Bikebear]

Did my Road Crash Rescue refresher on Saturday and the instructor told us that Merc, BMW,Audi and some other top Euro cars have this technology now. In the space of a couple of hundred milliseconds the car detects a possible collision and takes it's own actions to avoid the crash without the driver being able to do anything about it.
Won't be long and the driver will just be a passenger and the computer will do all the driving.

[JuST Peter]

This is a terrific step forward for all those dickheads who can't or don't see us!

it might just save a few lives too, and not just motorcyclists either - think of all the poor buggers the textures, or the green P Platers run into!

[alans1100]

Did my Road Crash Rescue refresher on Saturday and the instructor told us that Merc, BMW,Audi and some other top Euro cars have this technology now. In the space of a couple of hundred milliseconds the car detects a possible collision and takes it's own actions to avoid the crash without the driver being able to do anything about it.

All well and good if the car behind you has the technology as well..........

[Brock]

Pucker factor 10 there, and the road train will bury that track....

[royst1100]

hope it soon carries through to general vehicals