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(Ames, IA) -- Iowa State University researchers are developing new technology to help snowplow drivers better navigate blizzard conditions.
“When it gets really snowy and blowing and you can hardly see the hood of your car out the windshield, it becomes really difficult for us to continue operations because we can’t see where we’re going,” said Tina Greenfield, the road weather coordinator for Iowa DOT.
She tells WHO 13 the program will aim to act as an aid to the snowplow operators.
Anuj Sharma, a research scientist at Iowa State, says what the system looks like is still taking shape, but also says the program developers have one goal in mind.
“I think snowplow drivers are the best judge of how the system should look rather than us fencing up something which is futuristic,” Sharma said. “It should be simple and it should work.”
The Iowa DOT says the program is a federally funded, 18-month project.