Dont the radars on ships have a “Bitchin’ Betty?”
For goodness sake, most cars come with collision avoidance tech on them.
I assume you mean some kind of advanced collision warning system....something to alert the bridge watch that a collision might be imminent.
To my knowledge, this doesn't exist on Navy ships (probably not many others, either.) I could see such a warning going off so frequently in some locations that it would drive the watch standers insane. Not to mention, you could have a lot of "false positives," alarms indicating the possibility of a collision, when in fact none existed. Such a system could also lead to more confusion--do they trust "Betty," or their own eyes and ears?
The real "Bitchin' Betty" is the organizational structure of the underway watch teams. The Bridge, Combat, lookouts are all supposed to back each other up to form a nearly fool-proof system.