Sometimes it’s obvious when a road is slippery. Other times you can’t tell until your car has already begun swerving out of control. Now researchers in Finland have developed technology to make driving when there’s black ice a little less treacherous.
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed a slippery road detection system that uses your cars sensors to monitor road conditions and inform the driver and other drivers that there are slippery roads ahead, before the driver can even sense a change. Instead of relying on general weather forecasts, drivers can get real time insights into the roads they’re driving on.
via Smart Planet
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