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Lifesaving App Could Reduce Pileup Accidents in Va., Worldwide
Posted on Jul 17, 2011
While we tend to think of apps as fun toys for our phones, better at distracting drivers than saving their lives, a new app, linked directly to our cars, has the potential to reduce freeway pileup accidents. The new technology, being developed by researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy, relies on sensors that detect anomalies that only occur during an accident.
The instant the sensor detects an accident occurring, it sends signals to other cars with the app. This signal goes to all the other cars that have the app, and the car with the strongest signal passes it on. These transmissions happen in spilt seconds and, if all goes well, drivers are alerted and a major freeway pileup is avoided.
Road tests are being done on American freeways this summer. Italian researchers, along with engineers from Toyota, will be testing very similar technology. If everything goes well, developers hope to install the app in both new and old vehicles.
If the road tests go well, and the app works as it should, it may be only a matter of time until your car is talking to other vehicles, maybe even helping avoid a serious accident on I-64 in Norfolk and across the nation.
The accident and injury attorneys at Tavss Fletcher hope that this technology, and others like it, can help reduce the number of serious freeway accidents that occur all too often in Virginia.
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