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September 06, 2005
Magic fingers
The Register is running a piece about car seats that give your hind end a shake when you appear to be nodding off at the wheel.
Apparently the technology can improve reaction time a couple of tenths of a second. That currently can prevent up to 15 per cent of rear-end crashes. Experts are working on ways to give drivers an extra half a second, thereby reducing "rear-end crashes by as much as 60 per cent."
Kind of makes you wonder how the engineers came up with this idea in the first place.
Posted by Mark at September 6, 2005 08:57 PM