Situational Awareness Mode in Cars

 

Screen grab of crash on YouTube

I guess it won't be long, when cars on the road will be way more smarter than just mechanical boxes. Well, I mean it will be way much smarter than the current Tesla cars. In fact, the cars will have in built AI systems which will take control of the driving when there's a risky driving behavior or situation and guide the car to a safe spot.

 For example, anti collision system, or systems which will slow down the car when a driver accidentally slams the gas pedal. 

I thought of this after reading about a car collision which came in newspaper couple of weeks back. It happened in Kochi, when a person who test drove, lost control of the car and rammed into another car from the opposite side and then it crashed to another high-end Benz car. Due to this collision, the two high end car resulted in extensive damage. 

Imagine such scenarios. We have heard many reports of drivers loosing control while driving. It can happen when they fall asleep while driving or when they loose control when they try to avert hitting another vehicle, or human or animal on the road. And, few times accidents has happened right at the showroom when the driver takes the car outside the showroom. Bang! 

Why Cars Looses Control? 

Probably, the driver of the car accidentally presses the gas pedal or for some reason they wrongly read the road and traffic. Whatever may be the reason, the car looses control. 

In current scenario, there's no automatic safety mechanism to stop such a driving. So, what could be a better option in a car? What if there's built-in AI system that can sense such acceleration and diverts the accident with a slow down system? It could the sixth sense AI system! 

New Safety Switch in Cars ( Compulsory) 

What if all the cars come with a mandatory safety button. By this button, all cars will have systems which will read the driving behavior, road senario and avert any collision or instances when cars go beyond a certain speed limit.

When this switch is on ON mode, it will reduce the engine speed, make the driver go on a moderate speed. It can be made mandatory for cars, till it runs for 5000km. So, what it means is that, a driver owning a new car will get used to the driving, controls and road grip etc.

This will also help when vehicles are given for test drive. It won't jump from 0 to 80 in 5 sec or so. also, any wrong pressing on the gas pedal won't result in jetting out into another lane. 

All modes will function for safety as if a novice driver is driving. 

What do you think? How can we reduce such incidents from happening? 

Or do you think, test driving should be done is a different track away from traffic? 


Btw, do we have stats on how many car and lorry drivers get into accidents when the drivers sleep on the road.