Virginia Tech students develop new system of braking lights; actually not that new
Businessman Meade Gwinn had an idea when involved in a chain accident: braking lights that show the drivers how fast you’re hitting the brakes. Together with students in Professor Mehdi Ahmadian’s mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, he developed a new system of braking lights. The system features an array of LEDs that glow according to the action of the driver: lights in the center glow orange when hestart to slow, side lights turn red after a threshold, and all the lights go red if hitting the brakes.
It looks like Gwinn should’ve been driving a BMW: a similar system, called Adaptive Brake Lights, has already been implemented by the German company. In this case, the brake lights emit a larger, brighter light the more force the driver uses, but the system only works in two phases, as opposed to the three designed by the students.
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Written by AutoMotoGadgets, date Mar 27, 2008 in Auto, Car
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