By mkbhatia
Thursday, Nov 10th, 2005 @ 7:59 pm

On display at the this week at SBC Park are cars that can warn a driver in advance that he is about to run a red light, sound a buzzer when the car veers out of highway lane without signaling, and brace for a crash before it happens. What’s more, University of California, Berkeley, engineers have an experiment that tells a driver in advance that he won’t accomplish a left turn without getting hit. BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, and Nissan are all exhibitors and the event, and Inside Bay Area comments that “if one car could integrate all these technologies on display at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, it would take a complete idiot to crash it.” Nissan claims to offer the only cars on the market today with collision-avoidance technology, though the all-new Mercedes S-Class also features an automatic emergency braking technology, as will the new Volvo S80 , among others. Also, we recently reported that Mercedes was trying to get permission to offer brake lights that blink rapidly under heavy braking.

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