With over 40,000 deaths each year coming from traffic-related collisions and accidents, it’s a clear sign that improving road safety is a top priority across the nation. Advances in technology are helping reduce accidents and improving overall driver safety through a variety of methods. Here are the top 4 ways that technology will help improve road safety in the coming years.
#1 Data Collection
Along with computer controlled vehicles, data collection is vital to ensuring that we understand where and why accidents happen. The black box technology that has been famously used to track airplanes and help identify the cause of crashes is now being used in other vehicles. Black box technology is fairly simple, inexpensive, and easy to deploy on a wide scale of cars.
The benefits of the technology are we will be able to track the exact time, speeds, position, and other factors related to car collisions and accidents. As this data is studied, we will be able to better understand trends and reasons behind car crashes and use this data to prevent future incidents. South Korea was the first country to deploy black box technology in their taxi services and immediately noticed a 14 percent decrease in traffic accidents the following …
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