Every once in a while, a new technology comes along so brilliant in its simplicity and so obvious in its need that one just needs to smack one’s head and say “Why didn’t General Motors think of that?”
In this case, it’s a Princeton University automotive radar system that will let cars “see” around corners. And close to Yours Truly’s heart, although it was originally developed to spot unseen bicyclists and pedestrians, it will work just as well for motorcyclists.
Essentially, the system uses radar’s Doppler effect – the shift in returning radio waves when an object is moving – to measure the speed of a two-wheeler ahead. But that’s pretty standard stuff.
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