Despite only about 25% of car travel happening after dark, almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As our vehicles become more advanced and even autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding these collisions must evolve too. Current systems are often complicated, resource-intensive or work poorly in the dark. But now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have designed a simple, power-saving collision detector inspired by the way insects avoid bumping into one another.
Preventing vehicle crashes by learning from insects
