Ho ain’t boom

A person has to have eyes literally everywhere in traffic. Danger can suddenly appear: in front of you, behind you or next to you. Fortunately, modern cars have an extra pair of eyes that help prevent accidents.

Driving skills expert Mark Maaskant of Road Safety Lab outlines the following situation: “You are the second car approaching a roundabout and you just look to the left to see if traffic is approaching. Just then, the car in front of you suddenly has to brake, but you can’t see it because you’re just looking the other way. Before you know it you will crash into the vehicle in front.” Autonomous Emergency Braking, or the emergency braking system, offers an extra pair of eyes in that situation and can automatically apply the brake just in time, so that lumps are prevented. The Rear Collision Warning (detection of traffic when reversing) works in the same way: “If you reverse out of a parking space and you overlook a crossing cyclist, this system prevents a nasty collision with a brake intervention.”

Intelligent

Henk van Hoef of Bosch Car Service explains how it works: “The car uses radar to look out. But the radar can only see that there is an obstacle, not what it is. A camera and intelligent software then help determine whether it is a human or an animal, for example.” The radar is usually placed in the bumper or behind the grille. And the camera is often located next to the interior mirror in the windshield or in another place in the nose of the car. For optimal operation, the field of view of that camera must always be clean. Compare it with glasses: clean glasses also look much better than dirty ones.

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