UK – At the Road Transport Expo (RTX), which took place from the 28th-30th of June at the NAEC Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, Brigade Electronics Plc of South Darenth, Kent, a specialist in electronic warning and safety devices, launched a new road safety product, Radar Predict. In a bid to make the roads safer by reducing on-road collisions, the dual radar system uses a combination of radar technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect road objects, other vehicles and road users, and predicting if a collision is likely to happen and if so, it then promptly notifies the driver with an audio and visual alert. Radar Predict can make these detections up to 5 metres from the side of the vehicle, 7 metres in front of the vehicle and up to 30 metres to the rear of the vehicle’s cabin.

Brigade are betting big on the demand created by the Direct Vision Standard* (DVS) changes for HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles) advocated by Transport for London, with an estimated 165,000 vehicles needing to be updated to meet the new DVS changes. Radar Predict can be fitted on any large vehicle, including rigid and articulated trucks, within 2 hours and meets both DVS proposals and UN Regulation 151 (Blind Spot Detectionj).