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In-car technology is improving all the time and much of it is geared toward road safety. With too many road deaths still occurring each year there are plenty of exciting developments to stop drivers from crashing.
Recently a group of European car manufacturers, engineers and researchers announced the development of a new system that senses and then alerts drivers if pedestrians or cyclists are about to collide with their vehicle.
This is just one of a number of examples of really smart innovation that makes drivers safer, often from themselves. Other gadgets that are not far from migrating onto the mass market include a system that can read eye movements and react if the driver looks like falling asleep and technology that keeps you in lane if you begin to veer off.
However, the uncrashable car isn't here yet, and while we wait for it, drivers must do everything they can to reduce their road risk. The only motivation that drivers should need is their own safety and that of other road users. However, if that isn't incentive enough to drive responsibly, there's plenty of technology around which ensures that you will get caught if you don't.
A new digital camera has been produced which connects to the car's ignition and will record the last 25 seconds before an incident and five seconds afterward. This removes any ambiguity around who is at fault for an accident and is fully encrypted to make footage tamper-proof. Like a primitive version of the blackbox used on planes, the camera is activated when it is subjected to a sufficiently strong g-force and stores the video footage of the incident.
There have also been recent cases where the police have used mobile phone activity to convict drivers, going back through their phone records to see if they were calling or texting during an ill-fated journey. They are even hiding mitature camera's in lollipops on crossings to combat the increasing number of drivers who routinely drive through manned school crossing points without stopping, or shout abuse at crossing patrol staff.
Gone are the days when you can cause an accident and get away with it as technology supports the drive to crack down on bad driving. Persistent offenders will have no hiding place so make sure you drive carefully, or face the consequences.
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