Technology may offer ways to prevent wrong-way traffic deaths

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Technology may offer ways to prevent wrong-way traffic deaths
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The devastating impact often happens in darkness, on a highway, at high speed. Over 10 years, at least 650 people died and another 800 were injured in collisions involving wrong-way drivers on Texas roads, according to data from TxDOT. Across the United States, wrong-way crashes kill about 400 people every year. New technology is showing promise that drivers could soon be warned of the oncoming danger, giving them enough time to move toward safety.

As the car enters a geo-fenced area around those ramps, the GPS data is analyzed in the cloud to verify the car’s direction of travel. “There is a ping every second when you are close to these ramps,” said Bhavana Chakraborty, Bosch director of engineering.

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