Mitsubishi truck with people detectors

Mitsubishi Fuso is developing technology for their trucks which will detect pedestrians via two mounted cameras that can analyze moving objects and compare them to a database of 10,000 different human shapes (must... resist... crude... joke... about... Anna-Nicole... Smith), calculates the distance away, and then warns the driver to swerve out of the way. The system will work when the truck's speed is under 30kmh and people are within 5 to 20 meters away, which is to say that it will be practically useless under most circumstances.

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