{"id":41200,"date":"2015-06-26T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ims\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:11","slug":"tech-corner-how-av-is-making-roads-and-highways-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/tech-corner-how-av-is-making-roads-and-highways-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Corner:  How AV is making roads and highways safer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tech Corner:  How AV is making roads and highways safer\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>If you have ever driven down a major 400 highway in Ontario, you have probably noticed MTO\u2019s versatile overpass signs that provide drivers with useful information on upcoming traffic routes, safe driving messages, and even Amber Alerts. Although rudimentary, the intent is to make our roads and communities safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korean technology manufacturer Samsung has come up with its own way of increasing road safety: a &#8216;see-through&#8217; truck that allows drivers to see oncoming traffic thanks to a wireless camera mounted on the front grill of the cab and a series of large monitors mounted to the back of the trailer. The goal is to reduce accidents by providing drivers an unobstructed view of what\u2019s in front of the truck before attempting to overtake it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/samsung-s-see-through-trucks-aim-to-reduce-risk-of-passing-on-highway-1.3124315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC News<\/a> has more on \u2019see-through\u2019 technology that\u2019s being developed to try to make driving safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever driven down a major 400 highway in Ontario, you have probably noticed MTO\u2019s versatile overpass signs that provide drivers with useful information on upcoming traffic routes, safe driving messages, and even Amber Alerts. Although rudimentary, the intent is to make our roads and communities safer. Korean technology manufacturer Samsung has come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}