I have just come up with a multimillion dollar idea for you tech heads and programmers out there. Deer Detector(tm). The idea is essentially a device with programming that allows it to detect critters paired to front facing camera. It would have a speaker that could be set with custom sounds for various objects and would be able to differentiate between deer and other wildlife including people. Also make it like a Garmin where it's not always connected to the internet, it's only function is to detect critters and alert the driver much earlier and in low to zero light conditions. Could also include a storage to record and keep video of an incident similar to a dash cam.

Would have to include legal disclaimers printed in bold on the front box that it is no guarantee of detection, only that it is an assist.

@Heil_Honkler I think there may be a fundamental flaw with this idea. Not the technology, but the fact that deer will often come out of nowhere. No amount of driver awareness or tech can overcome the sheer idiocy of deer just coming out of nowhere from a ditch or the woods.

@houseoftolstoy well that's why I think the technology, properly programmed, could identify faster. it's not like facial recognition ai or the multitude of stuff a tesla has to figure out. just critters and people.

@Heil_Honkler I would have to know how much the sound differentiation system could do to detect animals, because a front facing camera is not going to be able to see a deer that darts in front of it until it is too late. Sure, having some detection tech can help, but most people who hit deer do so because they come out of nowhere, and the tech you are describing sounds like it would kick in just in time for when the deer smacks into the car.

@houseoftolstoy well no I kinda want it to have 270 degree support here, so long as we're not talking a wall, it should be able to identify critters via a variety of data like thermal imaging. not just image recognition.

Apparently they are already a thing?