Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nilton Renno mounts the infrared sensor onto his car, to test how well it performs on a snow-covered, residential road. (CREDIT: ...

Ice racing is fun, but sometimes you just want to get to work without a heightened risk of crashing. To give drivers more of a warning of freezing conditions, University of Michigan (U-M) researchers ...

Animals are also detectors of upcoming rains and storms! Long before humanity invented satellites, sensitive radars, or sophisticated sensors, animals relied on supercharged senses to pick up on ...

Autonomous cars need to see the world around them, kind of like we do, but with a lot more gadgets. They use a bunch of ...

Icy weather can turn routine travel into a high-risk gamble. On roads, ice causes about 20% of weather-related car crashes each year. In the sky, ice buildup contributes to roughly 10% of fatal air ...

Pilots, drivers and automated safety systems in cars and airplanes could be alerted to icy hazards by a pair of sensors developed at the University of Michigan. "More people are traveling by plane ...