High-visibility clothing and reflective strips may make pedestrians and cyclists invisible to modern car technology, a study suggests.Automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems, which are fitted to all ...

If another car is driving alongside in the blind sport area ... a generation of drivers that are largely unaware of vehicles around them and who rely solely on such gadgets to keep them out ...

Blind-spot monitoring, for example, helps keep you from hitting an unseen car when changing lanes. A forward-collision warning system signals if your car is in danger of striking one in front.

Instead of acting as blind spots limiting the driver's visibility, the system uses the roof pillars to display what's going on around the car. If there's an obstacle hidden by the A-pillars ...