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Future
cars will alert emergency services after a crash
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:07:46 PM,
DPA
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London:
Cars of the future fitted with super computer chips will
automatically alert emergency services in the event of an accident
and even inform them of the extent of the damage, according to
experts at a recent symposium in London.
"The car is probably going to be the most computer-intensive
possession that we will have," said Steve Wainwright, from
Freescale Semiconductor which produces chips that go inside car
control systems.
Computer systems will change and improve the way we drive a car,
according to Wainwright.
"All of us who feel we are better drivers now than we were ten
years ago, that's probably because we are getting more help than
we realise," he added.
On average today's cars are already fitted with between 25 and 30
microcomputers controlling such systems as the Electronic
Stability Programme (ESP), the Anti-Locking Brakes (ABS), night
vision and other systems.
Paul Burnley, an analyst from the automotive market research
company SBD, said in future more advanced computer systems would
feed emergency services with data, "perhaps letting them analyse
this and build a profile of the crash and evaluate the risk of
serious injury to the occupants".
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