Mitsubishi Fuso reportedly is developing a pedestrian collision detection system for trucks and other commercial vehicles using technology developed by shareholder DaimlerChrysler.
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A pair of cameras captures images of objects in front of the vehicle and calculates their distance, while a central controller compares the images with a database of about 10,000 human shapes to highlight pedestrians.
Mitsubishi claims the system works at speeds of up to 20 mph (30km/h) and can ‘spot’ pedestrians between five and 20 metres away but is still some years away from production.
News of this latest development is somewhat ironic, given that two former Mitsubishi executives involved with the Fuso truck operations, recently faced a lawsuit after a Japanese pedestrian was killed by a runaway wheel from a Fuso truck.
The company was embroiled in a scandal after it emerged that known defects in wheel hubs and clutches had been covered up in an apparent attempt to avoid vehicle recalls. This week it announced it was temporarily halting sales of large trucks.
