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Any car enthusiast in his life faced a situation where on the highway you have to lag behind the refrigerator, because overtake such a large car is dangerous (no oncoming lane can be seen behind it). However, not overtaking a slow-moving truck is painful occupation. And then the driver starts overtaking at your own peril and risk …
For this reason, many accidents occur, videos about which literally abounds in YouTube. Given this problem, the company Samsung (more precisely – its Argentine division) proposed brilliant idea. So that the truck can be overtaken without risk, his backside needs to “show” the panorama of what is in front of him. To do this, the developers installed on the front of the truck video cameras, and on the back – they hung a large screen, which in real time showed how free before the same refrigerated lane.
Everything is very simple and ingenious, but … in fact I got out another problem, namely, the price of such a video system. No one the owner of the truck will not buy and install it, then another and monitor the operation of such a system, since it is expensive and troublesome. It is possible, moreover, that such a system will not pull additional fuel costs, it’s just that no one has yet checked.
True, there is a way out: oblige truck owners to establish such systems. After all, they force drivers to buy seats for child, although at one time motorists seemed to easily get along without it. If Samsung’s proposed security system effective on the road in terms of reducing accidents, you just need calculate how much car accidents cost society because refrigerators block the view of the road for those who goes after them. Count and adopt the relevant law. Moreover truck owners should receive some kind of state subsidy for the installation of such a video system, since it is needed more not to their cars, but to those who follow them.
It would be interesting to see which country would be the first to rate the genius of Samsung’s offer and will accept the appropriate law?
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