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Slideshow: Tech to Help Drivers Brake Sooner

Researchers are working on a range of technologies to help drivers avoid crashes. One MIT professor's concept involves GPS, wireless, advanced traffic-flow models and -- of all things -- a flashing red light. By Katie Dean.
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Some of the nearly 100 vehicles damaged in a chain-reaction pileup along Interstate-95 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on March 6, 2003, waiting for tow trucks to remove them from the highway.AP Photo/Patricia McDonnell

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MIT professor Eric Feron hopes to develop a traffic-alert system using in-vehicle wireless communications technology, GPS and advanced traffic-flow models to alert drivers of traffic problems that lie ahead.

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