MobileEye N.V., a Netherlands-based technology company with U.S. offices in Southfield, Mich., has introduced the Mobileye Advance Warning System

to help prevent collisions. The system includes a small camera and processing unit on the windshield behind the rear-view mirror, and a cellphone-size driver display on the dash. Two small speakers on either side of the driver provide audible warning signals.
The Mobileye system provides:
--Lane departure warning, responding to unintentional lane departures with the sound and feeling of a rumble strip.
--Headway monitoring, which produces a warning sound when headway time is too short for safe driving.
--Forward collision warning detects vehicles in front of the host, monitors the distance and time to collision, and issues emergency warnings, both visual and audible.
According to Professor Amnon Shashua, Mobileye's founder and chief scientist, the technology is a low-cost, easy-to-install alternative or add-on to expensive radar-based systems that are effective for measuring straight-line distances but cannot determine where a truck is positioned in a lane.
"Mobileye's monocular vision-based technology works the way the human eye does," he explained, "accurately reading lane markings and providing lane departure, forward collision warnings and more to prevent accidents before they occur."
Mobileye also announced that East West Express of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is installing Mobileeye in its fleet of fifty-five trucks. Two trucks have already been outfitted.
For more information visit www.mobileye.com.