Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nilton Renno mounts the infrared sensor onto his car, to test how well it performs on a snow-covered, residential road. (CREDIT: ...

Ice racing is fun, but sometimes you just want to get to work without a heightened risk of crashing. To give drivers more of a warning of freezing conditions, University of Michigan (U-M) researchers ...

Autonomous cars need to see the world around them, kind of like we do, but with a lot more gadgets. They use a bunch of ...

Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it’s going to occur, you might like this project from [Mohammad ...

Animals are also detectors of upcoming rains and storms! Long before humanity invented satellites, sensitive radars, or sophisticated sensors, animals relied on supercharged senses to pick up on ...

The secret to safer self-driving cars might be this tiny radar device. The post This low-cost orange-sized sensor could be what self-driving cars need to hit public roads appeared first on Digital ...

Icy weather can turn routine travel into a high-risk gamble. On roads, ice causes about 20% of weather-related car crashes each year. In the sky, ice buildup contributes to roughly 10% of fatal air ...

Pilots, drivers and automated safety systems in cars and airplanes could be alerted to icy hazards by a pair of sensors developed at the University of Michigan. "More people are traveling by plane ...