Question: What would you do to prevent a car from crashing?

Katie Pavey answered on 13 Mar 2017:

Great question, and this is an area that the whole car industry is working really hard at improving.

Modern cars (especially the more expensive ones) have lots of safety features to try and prevent crashes. For example, automatic brakes when a sensor of the front bumper detects the car is approaching an object. Or side sensors that detect if the driver tries to change lanes when another car is alongside.

I think eventually cars will become driverless, wich will reduce the number of crashes massively. The tricky part is when we have 50% human driven cars and 50% robot driven cars. Robots can find humans a bit tricky to predict as we don’t follow a set program like them!