News tagged with driver assistance systems

New methods keep bugs out of software for self-driving cars

Driver assistance technologies, such as adaptive cruise control and automatic braking, promise to someday ease traffic on crowded routes and prevent accidents. Proving that these automated systems will work as intended is ...

Technology / Software

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Making digital maps more current and accurate

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have designed an innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors. Now the partners ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1




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Brainput system takes some brain strain off multi-taskers

(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Black carbon, tropospheric ozone most likely driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further polew ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers give long look at who benefits from nature tourism

Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it isn't an automatic ticket out of poverty for the human habitants, a unique long-term study shows.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cadillac testing 'Super Cruise' feature for future cars

(Phys.org) -- Cadillac is reportedly joining the crowd working on features that it says should reduce car accidents by allowing the car to drive itself under optimal conditions, relieving the driver from fatigue, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Futuristic cars are coming faster than you think

Cars that drive themselves are not just the stuff of sci-fi movies. The technology is real, the cars can now drive legally and the debate is starting on whether society is better off when software is behind the wheel.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 26

Poor spring rain projected in Africa

Spring rains in the eastern Horn of Africa are projected to begin late this year and be substantially lower than normal.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kyoto prof rolls out omnidirectional wheelchair

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mechanical engineering professor has taken the wraps off his vehicle that is designed to become a next-generation wheelchair. As its formal name suggests, this is the Personal Mobile Vehicle, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Protein researchers unravel the molecular dance of DNA repair

Using state-of-the-art technology, scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen and their international collaborators have successfully obtained "molecular snapshots" ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

ORNL tool puts spotlight on nation's electricity generation capacity

A technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could streamline and strengthen the process for siting power plants while potentially enhancing the nation's energy security.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new system of stereo cameras detects pedestrians from within the car

A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the University of Alcalá (UAH, Spain), has developed a system that locates pedestrians in front of the vehicle using artificial vision. Soon ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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