THERE’S no good place to have a car crash – but some places are worse than others. In a foreign country, for instance, trying to explain via cellphone that you are upside down in a ditch when you cannot speak the local language can fatally delay the arrival of the emergency services. If you’re conscious at all, that is.
But an answer may be at hand. Researchers funded by the European Commission are beginning tests this month of a system called E-merge that automatically senses when a car has crashed and sends a text message telling emergency services in the local…
