<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Inertial sensors enable active safety</title><link>/technologies/automotive/b/blog/posts/inertial-sensors-enable-active-safety</link><description>by Mike Stanley Expanding on the topic of “active safety,” Freescale recently announced advanced Xtrinsic sensors for use in Electronic Stability Control (ESC). ESC works by comparing vehicle responses to user control inputs. If the two are inconsiste</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Inertial sensors enable active safety</title><link>https://community.element14.com/technologies/automotive/b/blog/posts/inertial-sensors-enable-active-safety</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 20:30:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:6ce3e8ca-2ec3-43e7-a944-b212f3aeb77d</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;This technology looks a lot like a program I worked on a bunch of years ago called &amp;quot;The Pilot Companion&amp;quot;, where the computer would monitor the pilots normal reactions to situations and alert them when they were outside of the area of &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; operation.&amp;nbsp; I am actually surprised that it took them this long to realize that you can privide a gentle assistance to drivers without forcing them to interact with the system.&amp;nbsp; Now if they could just find a way to detect when the driver is impaired and disable the vehicle, we could probably save a lot of lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=12678&amp;AppID=8&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>