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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: HADAR: NEXT GEN THERMAL IMAGING
Description: Imagine driving down the road on a dark night.
Suddenly; your car slows and rolls to a gentle stop, just before a big deer that had been completely hidden from sight in the woods, darts out onto the road exactly where you would have been, if advanced thermal imaging sensors hadn't saved you from a potentially fatal crash.
Sound far-fetched?
Well, according to researchers at Purdue University, that could actually happen within the next few years, if their new HADAR technology is adopted by the automotive industry for both human-driven, and autonomous vehicles.
HADAR is short for "heat assisted detection...