There are plenty of terrifying videos showing vehicles somehow stuck in a railroad crossing and a train hitting crashing into them. Whenever this happens, the train wins. Ford has a new patent for mitigating this type of collision by detecting if a locomotive is coming.
In one implementation, there are two primary parts to Ford's patent. First, there would be a sensor on the train tracks before and after the machine goes through the railroad crossing. The other primary portion is a detector in the automobile that would monitor for signals from the track-side sensors.
