Mitsubishi Electric and HERE develop road hazard alert system to improve driver safety

Mitsubishi Electric and HERE develop road hazard alert system to improve driver safety

Successful tests of new system in Japan and the United States

Real-time sharing of the precise location of incidents from car-to-cloud-to-car can boost driver safety and fuel other new services

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

HERE Technologies

have successfully piloted a system that enables vehicles to automatically warn others about upcoming road hazards with lane-level precision.

At the end of March,

the two companies successfully completed field tests of the technology, called Lane Hazard Warning, in California in the United States.

This followed a successful trial in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan last winter.

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