The program will gather raw data from about 1,000 cars equipped with minicameras, motion-detection sensors and other devices to monitor cars and their drivers.
The bridge operators not only monitor cars, trains, pedestrians, cyclists and skateboarders, they also have to watch the boaters passing through, some of whom have a hard time getting what they view as their big vessel through a tiny hole.
The company had built a hardware and software platform for valet operators that allowed businesses to monitor cars and staff in real-time, view historical data, and mine customer demographics.
And helicopter officers, accustomed to monitoring car chases and fleeing criminals from above, were certain to keep a special watch on the area.
Tom Libby, senior director for industry analysis at J.D. Power & Associates Power Information Networkk, which monitors car sales on a weekly basis, said the first week of October was "very, very weak" for the automakers like September, when industry sales sank to a 15-year low.
As the Japanese company prepares to issue another recall, this time for its 2010 Prius hybrid, the system for monitoring car safety across the European Union also has appeared, like the company, opaque and slow to react.
In Britain the average trade-in price in November of a one-year-old diesel luxury saloon such as an Audi A8, a Jaguar XJ or a Mercedes S-Class was 21% leS-Class wasear earlier, calculates EurotaxGlass's, a firm that monitors car prices.
As Toyota has issued its piecemeal recalls — including the most recent plan to recall at least 311,000 of its 2010 Prius models after a flurry of complaints about the brakes — the system for monitoring car safety across Europe has appeared similarly opaque.
Vehicle-based performance technologies infer driver behavior by monitoring car systems such as lane deviation, steering or speed variability.
The latter is done by a dedicated monitoring car and supplemented by roughness measurements using a modified roughness-measuring device in connection with a newly developed algorithm for data analysis, enabling a prediction of the noise emission on the basis of roughness measurements.
