Accident Warning System at Intersection
Accident Warning System at Intersection
Team Members
Team Faculty Advisors Team Poster sdp07_draft_poster_Pishro-Nik&Ni Advisor Demo
Project Summary
Vehicle collisions at
intersections account for a large percentage of overall traffic accidents.
Figure 1 shows three of the most common ways for collisions at intersections.
Figure 1: Common reasons for collisions at intersections The situations illustrated in Figure 1 account for 65%
of injury accidents and 70% of fatal accidents. It is also true that for the
past thirty years, the annual fatality rate due to traffic accidents in the
United States has been over 40,000. We can prevent a large number of these accidents from
occurring if we could provide drivers with warnings about potential
collisions. For example, if a system could warn a car sitting at an intersection
that another car is about to run the light, the driver waiting at the
intersection would then not immediately start driving the minute the light
turns green for him since he would be aware that there could be a potential
collision with a car running the light. Our project concentrates on using technology to provide warnings to drivers about potential accidents and collisions at intersections. |
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