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With the help of the new security system can be bus drivers see into blind spots and around corners.

A new security system that allows a bus driver to see around corners and into the blind spots will be available on the market within three years. The system is based on a technology with a number of cameras on the bus and developed by Alpine, best known for its car stereos.

Alpine manufactures, however, since the former also including reversing cameras for buses.

For example, a T-junction with obstruction bus driver can be helped to see "around corners" by using a camera mounted in the bus's front. The camera sees what it looks like both the left and right, and straight ahead. Camera images are displayed on a display on the dashboard.

Lane Changes facilitated by cameras on bussidorna that eliminates the blind spots that would otherwise be there for the driver - especially useful when driving left hand drive buses in the British Isles with their left.

A third new feature of the system are cameras in the bus's corner to give the driver a helicopter view of what it looks like the vehicle's corners. It helps the driver detect, for example, pedestrians or other obstacles that are hard to see.

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