Active Safety – A Little Help From Your Electronic Friends
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009It started out simple enough. Historians may argue the chronology, but “Active Safety” likely began with the “horn,” an effective way to alert the guy ahead of you that you might run into him if he doesn’t move. Then someone came up with the idea of something called a “turn signal” to let other drivers know which way you were thinking of going. That led to another great idea, “brake lights” that let the guy behind you know you were slowing down.
Active safety has mushroomed ever since. Much of the safety technology developed over the past 50 years has focused on protecting people in a crash — reacting to an impact with passive safety technology like seat belts and airbags. The future of active safety seeks to help prevent accidents in ways the inventor of the horn never imagined.
