Mitsubishi Electric, HERE Team up Yields Driver Alert System

摘要

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and HERE Technologies have successfully piloted a system that enables vehicles to automatically warn others about upcoming road hazards with lane-level precision. Towards the end of March, the two companies successfully completed field tests of the technology they called Lane Hazard Warning in California, the United States. This also followed a successful trial in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture. Warns Drivers Ahead The companies now intend to make the technology available broadly to automakers for them to test in their vehicles. Lane Hazard Warning enables an event detected by a vehicle's sensors - such as a disabled or slow car, a slippery road, debris or a pothole - to be precisely localized to a specific lane and this information to be transmitted in real-time via the cloud to other vehicles approaching the same area.