CAR CRASHES could be prevented at busy road junctions by making tall trucks and buses “transparent”.
A team from the University of Tsukuba in Japan say that if you could see through the vehicles obscuring your view, junctions would be easier to navigate and accidents might be avoided.
With 80 million cars on its roads, Japan has some of the heaviest traffic in the world, says Ken Perret, an expert in intelligent transport systems at Britain’s Transport Research Laboratory in Crowthorne, Berkshire.
So the Japanese government is introducing a range of new technologies to make driving safer. It has already…
