Sentence examples for a collision risk from inspiring English sources

But once the vessels were at close quarters, the captain of the Ady Gil "failed to respond by taking appropriate evasive action – choosing instead to maintain his course and speed, which allowed the close quarters situation to develop into a collision risk", Taylor said.

It said that if a collision risk was detected an alarm would sound and the car's brakes would be fully deployed.

Apart from these catalogued objects, the ESA 1-m telescope has observed many smaller debris (down to 10 15 cm) in this orbital region representing a collision risk for GEO spacecraft which is difficult to quantify.

The results show that the proposed methodology is successful in determining the minimum distance separation values required to make an air traffic scenario safe from a collision risk perspective, and in illustrating how minimum separation values are affected by different sector/traffic characteristics.

Depending upon what orbit that satellite is in, all of those pieces could be up there for a very long time and thus pose a collision risk to everything else in that region.

Pettersson (2005) calculated a collision risk factor for the total number of migratory waterfowl passing through two Swedish offshore wind farms during spring and autumn migration.

The disastrous consequences of ship collision necessitate the development of a collision risk-informed assessment procedure that ensures safety and functionality of maritime transportation systems.

To address the occlusion problem, this paper proposes a probabilistic collision risk assessment method for a potential collision vehicle in an occluded area.

Furthermore, depending on the final application one can compute the risk of colliding with a specific vehicle or sum over all the vehicles and obtain a global collision risk [[25],[52]].

A new Front and Rear Automatic Braking system uses a combination of radar, optical cameras and ultrasonic sensors to first alert the driver of an impending collision risk and then, if he or she is unresponsive, automatically brake the car to a safe stop.

Furthermore, an increased collision risk can exist for species that show characteristic gender behavior, e.g., the male song-flights of skylarks (Alauda arvensis) (Morinha et al. 2014).