Every driver knows major metro areas are peppered with
potholes. The severity can range from the merely cringe-inducing to the
decidedly dangerous, and in attempting to fix them, municipalities face a
perpetual game of Whack-a-Mole.
And now Jaguar Land Rover is testing a system to combat
potholes on three fronts.
The 'Pothole Alert' technology will use a sophisticated
camera to read road surfaces, identify problem patches, and alert drivers. But
that's only one facet of the system, which will also utilize MagneRide active
damping—the same trick tech which makes thoroughbreds
like Ferrari's 488 GTB so good—to prepare the suspension to absorb a shock
if it's unavoidable.
Perhaps the most interested element of the experiment,
however, is the possibility of reporting the camera's data to the
cloud, which would allow not only other—potentially autonomous—vehicles to
benefit from warnings, but give local governments a detailed breakdown of where
the worst hazards lie.
There's no estimate of when we could see Pothole Alert or the
company's arguably cooler Transparent Pillar Technology, on production
vehicles, though the system is slated for installation on a Range Rover Evoque
soon.
source:http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1098673_jaguar-land-rovers-pothole-alert-warns-about-hated-hazard
by John Coyle
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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