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Yes, those big touchscreens in cars are dangerous and buttons are coming back

Milad Haghani, The University of Melbourne In recent years, the way drivers interact with cars has fundamentally changed. Physical buttons have gradually disappeared from dashboards...

Hyundai Mobis Unveils Autonomous Rear Safety Technology to Prevent Highway Collisions

Hyundai Mobis has introduced an advanced rear safety control technology designed to prevent rear-end collisions during highway driving, marking a significant leap in the...

How to design autonomous machines that are more reliable and less costly

An international team of computer scientists has developed a new method to reduce cost-safety tradeoffs. University of Rochester With millions of self-driving cars projected to be...

Electric vehicles are usually safer for their occupants – but not necessarily for everyone else

Jingwen Hu, University of Michigan The future of automobiles is electric, but many people worry about the safety of today’s electric vehicles. Public opinion about EV...

Driverless cars: stopping dead seems to be a default setting when they encounter a problem — it can cause chaos on roads

Barry Brown, Stockholm University While self-driving vehicles are being deployed in numerous cities globally, persistent controversies continue to challenge their deployment. Recently, Tesla recalled more than...

Autonomous Vehicles Will Soon Be Safer Than Humans, Some Already Are

The promise of autonomous vehicles has been a long time coming. While many are still waiting to see the fruits of all this work,...

Tesla’s driver monitoring system fails to detect sleeping driver, teddy bear, and no one at the wheel

The Dawn Project has released safety test videos showing that a self-driving Tesla's driver monitoring system fails to detect when a driver texts, reads,...

Smart Road – Roadside Perception Industry Review 2023

Roadside perception research: evolution to integration, high performance and cost control.In June 2023, at a regular policy briefing of the State Council the Ministry...

As heavy EVs proliferate, their weight may be a drag on safety

How safe are electric vehicles? It’s a question that keeps coming up in different ways in my role overseeing our vehicle crashworthiness evaluations. When we...

Ultra-sensitive optical sensor can reduce hydrogen’s risks

Chalmers University of Technology In the pursuit of clean and renewable energy, hydrogen plays an important role. But a major challenge facing this transition is...

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