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Radar policing
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• A new radar-based collision avoidance system bat amid help vehicles "police" the road is being tested at the University of Wolverhampton.
The system, known as FRETSET, can use its sat-nay system to process information regarding road speed and adjust the vehicle accordingly; it can even take into consideration accident black spots for further adjustments.
Professor Chris Nwagboso, who heads the research team involved with FRETSET, believes that a truck fitted with the system can prevent other vehicles falling foul of an accident blackspot as well.
He says: "A truck equipped with the technology will slow down to avoid a situation at the identified stretch of road. It will In turn be slowing down vehicles behind it, which will help others avoid the accident too."
Nwagboso adds: "ft a truck receives information about an accident on the motorway, as well as slowing down it will also send the information to other vehicles equipped with the technology behind it. This will produce a rolling roadblock to slow all vehicles down before they reach the accident."
In addition, If the vehicle is entering a possible collision, Its built-in sensors—located front, side and roar— acknowledge the situation and brake, accelerate or swerve to avoid the accident using drive-by-wire technology that controls the steering or brakes, he says.