If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to receive daily tips on Auto & Moto Gadgets using our RSS feed or by Email. Thanks for visiting!

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.

via.