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Watch: How Samsung's 'see-through' truck can help other drivers decide if it's safe to overtake

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If you have ever driven behind a semi-trailer truck on a single-lane highway or road, you can understand that how it difficult it gets to overtake it. The truck may be driving relatively slowly, but overtaking it becomes a task - one due to its humongous size, and second because you cannot see what is happening in front of the truck or if there is any vehicle coming from the opposite direction. And this is where, Samsung gets in not only to make driving easier for people on single-lane highways, but also to help avoid accidents that happen because of overtaking. The South Korean giant has introduced a see-through 'Safety Truck' that consists of a wireless camera attached to the front of the truck, which is connected to a video wall made out of four exterior monitors located on the back of the truck. The monitors give drivers behind the truck a view of what is going on ahead, even in the dark of night. This allows drivers to have a better view when deciding whether it is s