Ford Motor Company thinks GPS technology could be used to alert drivers to pending danger, and help avoid accidents altogether. Official findings from the joint Ford-Auburn University research project will be presented next week, but company officials say researchers believe they have found a way to use GPS to act as an early warning detection system.
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Wouldn't accelerometers be a whole lot more practical, if you're trying to detect that the car isn't behaving the way the driver attends?
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Soon we will not be even able to control what our car is doing. Too many instances of systems going bad like this recent NHTSA warning. One system will tell it to swerve and another will then tell it to stop and then report the accident which has occurred to local authorities. Thanks OnStar.
The NHTSA - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation of Corvette involves about 48,000 2005 and 2006 models. Some consumers had claimed that the electronic stability control system malfunctioned, “causing a sudden and inappropriate braking action without illumination of the brake lights and causing the vehicle to swerve left or right unexpectedly.”