WIRED: Corvette Racer Avoids Crashes With Trick Radar Tech

GPS · Oct 5, 2013

When the No. 4 Corvette C6.R beat out a field of Ferraris, Porsches and Vipers at the 12 Hours of Sebring earlier this month, the ‘Vette had a leg up on the competition. It wasn’t extra horsepower or super-sticky tires that gave the drivers an advantage, but a handful of sensors and a PC running Linux.

The Pratt & Miller team used a rear-facing radar system — the same technology your adaptive cruise control uses to avoid smacking the guy in front of you — to create an identification and collision-avoidance setup that identifies and tracks cars approaching from behind and relays the information to the driver through a 7-inch, cockpit-mounted display. The system can track up to 32 cars and tell the driver how many are behind him, how quickly they’re closing in, which classification they are and — if they’re fast enough — which side of the Corvette they’ll pass on.

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http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/03/corvette-racer-radar/

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