European Company Working on Uncrashable Car

In the quest for unimpeachable car safety, the European company Prevent is trying to build the first “uncrashable” car. This sounds absurd, but Prevent wants to use existing computer technology to make a vehicle as “deathproof” as the laws of physics will allow.

The aim is to prevent — get it? Prevent, prevent? Never mind — accidents before they occur by making use of an integrated computer system that can warn drivers about road hazards, upcoming rough terrain, watch the car’s blind spots, and analyze not only the car’s speed and distance from other cars, but also monitor the speed and trajectories of other vehicles. Oh, and it also makes a decent cappuccino (or, at least, it might as well).

Don’t expect to see all of these sophisticated systems while you’re car-shopping. However, a few like blind-spot detection and distance detection are in use now. It will still be a few years before a majority of the technology catches up to Prevent’s aspirations.

Road Safety: The Uncrashable Car? (Science Daily via Gizmodo)