Bicycle crash study could guide design of bicyclist detection systems

IIHS
Status Report, Vol. 50, No. 3 | March 31, 2015

[…] A growing number of vehicles are equipped with front crash prevention technology that can recognize the back of another vehicle and prevent a rear-end crash. If more of these systems could also recognize the backs of bicycles and bicyclists, they could prevent or mitigate a large portion of the crashes that kill people traveling on two wheels. […]