Oh, deer: Volvo on the hunt for car-animal crash avoidance technology

Engineers at Sweden’s Volvo are working to buck the trend of car-deer collisions by developing vehicle technology that detects and avoids animals of varying species encroaching upon the roadway.

“The system consists of two parts,” explains Andreas Eidehall of the automaker’s active safety systems division, “a radar sensor and an infra-red camera that can register the traffic situation.” It is based on technologies from Volvo’s Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake, which was introduced in 2010.

An essential element of the new unit, which is due to hit the market within a few years, is that it be able to fully function in the dark because most encounters with animals occur at dawn or dusk during the shorter days of fall and winter.

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