Slow down, there are showers
The sophisticated radar weather could contribute to the establishment of an early warning system for motorists to avoid traffic accidents and save lives, say researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Toledo, Ohio.
Car accidents are often in heavy rain, given that the wet and drivers to reduce traction can not see so far. But the terrestrial weather radar could warn the driver conditions crevasses hidden here.
The radar measurement of the density of rain every kilometer, five-minute intervals, were established in most USA, with the objective of improving the governance of the monitoring system of time . But researchers have discovered that the comments can also be used to predict dangerous liaisons live amounts of precipitation and low visibility.
The deadly trail of the highway are not surprising, if the torrential rain is, indeed, but the main routes to these areas, “said Larry Wilson, a research student in civil engineering at Washington. This is because motorists tend to slam on their brakes when they see sudden weather. A wave of return of passports broke out in a chain reaction, which is of accidents of the storm outside the space itself, “he said. Wilson and his colleagues presented their findings to the AAAS.
Many Americans have already Highways electronic Message Boards, warn drivers of dangerous conditions, but they are not always in step with the rapid deterioration of storms.
Researchers say that road safety, improve, if computers are fed directly from weather radar data, so that automatically updates the message, the more cards regularly
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