Road signs: Let your car handle them

Siemens VDO developed a new systems that reads and interpretes road signs for you and can even act on them.

A special camera captures video of, and an onboard computer with pattern-recognition reads, any road signs. If the system spots a speed limit sign, for example, it places that information side-by-side with your actual speed in a heads-up display, which floats in your field of vision in the windshield. You can also set cruise control to adjust your speed to the posted speed limit. They want to start selling these to car makers in two years.

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