A team of researchers at the technical University of Munich in German intended to develop a new technique that allows the car to avoid a collision with pedestrians through a connection between the car and the mobile phone. The team noted that the project aims to prevent traffic accidents for pedestrians and cyclists by providing the mobile phone with a send / receive unit for the wireless signals which allows the driver or the vehicle to perform an emergency braking even if the obstacle is not visible to the car but this system will function correctly if the vehicle has a specific tracking system which is a main part of this system.
The research team headed by professor Irvine Pebble passed several difficulties such as the need to anticipate the tracking system for the behaviors of the other drivers and people on the road where the system should expect any movement of the pedestrians who might come out from between two parked cars to the walk lane so the scientists have developed a method to estimate the motion which tracks the movement of the transmitter / receiver unit in advance. The speed of response is one of the other difficulties faced by the system so the German scientists have developed a method to measure the distance between the vehicle and the transmitter / receiver unit very quickly and meticulously within fractions of a second.
The research team has explained that thanks to the cooperative transmitter / receiver unit, the system can turn on the emergencybrakes of the car even before the pedestrians enters the walk lane and this will protect the people on the road in addition to the driver as well. The driver of the car can do that too if the system alerted him and this is done by emergency brakes assistantbut the German scientists confirmed that the current help system in the car cannot respond to the disappearing barriers. The technical University of Munich did not disclose so far for the opportunities or the entrydate of this new technology into the production level, however, the university confirmed that a major company which is specialized in mobile phoneshas expressed its interest in this matter in addition to the participation of major companies operating in the field of cars production such as BMW, Daimler and the German Continentalcompany which is the feeder for the automotive industry.
