New Technology Could Display Traffic Signs Inside Vehicles
BANGALORE: A new technology may allow a dashboard screen inside the car to display traffic signs and alert the driver of what actions to take. Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are in the early stages of a novel idea to move stop and yield signs, among other posted traffic, from the side of the road into the car itself.
A dashboard screen will automatically alert the driver of what actions to take, if any. If no other car is present at the intersection, the will driver would be allowed to pass through and go on, researchers said. ”The idea is there would be no physical stop or yield signs on the side of the road, but they would be inside the vehicle,” said Alexandria Noble of Newark, Delaware, a master’s student with the Virginia Tech Charles E Via Jr Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Noble, who is also working with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, is spearheading the proof of concept adaptive stop-yield study with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Noble is working under direction of her adviser and project manager, Thomas A Dingus, the institute’s director and an endowed professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.
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