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New crash test dummies are a virtual reality
A new generation of crash test dummies are being developed to give a better indication of how various auto safety systems protect, or fail to protect people during car accidents.
Two teams of engineers from the University of Virginia’s centre for Biomechanics, will be involved in the creation of the ‘virtual’ dummy – which will live entirely within computers, but, according to the researchers, will be more realistic than any physical dummy ever subjected to a crash test.
Richard Kent, one of the team leaders on the project, from the University of Virginia, explained: “Already cars and their safety systems are designed on computers.
“Its logical that we would create a virtual crash test dummy that would allow us to test these safety systems before they are ever physically built.”
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Wraparound video image of a vehicle
New driver assistance technology developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, provides a complete wrap-around view of a vehicle’s perimeter in real-time, enhancing the driver’s field of view and improving driving safety by assisting the driver in a variety of situations, such as parking, passing on a narrow street, and seeing around corners at intersections with poor sightlines.
The new technology comprises a MB86R01 SoC graphics chip for automobiles from Fujitsu Microelectronics, which supports the OpenGL ES, a general purpose embeddable image-processing platform; and a video-processing chip that combines video images from four camera installed around the vehicle’s perimeter. As a vehicle view assistance system, this achieves real-time operation, with 30 millisecond video processing time.
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