CE#2: No More Car Accidents

In an article published yesterday, December 18. 2017, in a new innovation in the car industry may save thousands of lives. A group of students at the American University of Sharjah have designed a system where the car detects driving activity of the surrounding cars and warns the driver of potential threats. The students decided to create this senior project because of the serious issue car accidents have in the UAE which is the leading cause of death in the country. The actual way this works is by attaching a device and several components that come with it to the car's dashboard. This allows the device to read the data pertaining to the speed, brake, engine, reading and more; subsequently, the device would then share the data to surrounding cars with the same device using a high level communication protocol using radio and not internet. Then if the device notice any unusual behavior such as tailgating, speeding, frequent braking, swerving, and etc, it will notify the driver and the driver can make appropriate actions to prevent an accident.  This device is inexpensive and universal to most cars; therefore, it can implemented easily and can work most efficiently. This device might just change how people drive in the future.

I believe this is a huge innovation because there are virtually car accidents occurring every day and even if someone dies as a result there are sever consequences. This device might just eliminate the need for car insure if it was implemented to every car manufactured and could even make the fear many people have when driving to disappear. Everyone has the lingering worry of ending up in a car accident and this device would make it that people would feel more at ease when driving. As someone who is most likely going to drive in the future I also have that little fear of being a part of a car crash; humans make mistakes. So this device makes me feel relaxed and puts less pressure on me to try and learn how to drive perfectly which I assume also occurs with other people.




Source: http://gulftoday.ae/portal/779d0bef-9280-45a3-a838-865f381ccbc7.aspx

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