The large number of rear end collisions due to driver inattention has been identified as a major automotive safety issue. In this paper, we describe a 3-phase vehicle tracking methodology with a single moving camera mounted on the driver’s automobile as input for use in detecting rear vehicles on highways and city streets. In the first phase, vehicle detection, a rear vehicle is detected by sym...

BACKGROUND There is an increased risk of automobile accidents in patients with some cardiovascular disorders and licensing authorities have imposed certain restrictions on such persons. Experience assessing fitness to drive among drivers with cardiovascular disorders, and the relevance of other associated medical conditions among drivers assessed as unfit, are reported here. METHODS AND RESUL...

"Unintended-acceleration" automobile accidents typically begin when the driver first enters the car, starts the engine, and intends to press his/her right foot on the brake while shifting from Park to a drive gear (Drive or Reverse). The driver reports an unintended (uncommanded) full-throttle acceleration, coupled with a loss of braking, until the episode ends in a crash. Pedal misapplications...

In today’s world automobile industries are coming out with so many new features in cars. Road infrastructures are also getting much better in all over the world. Due to this, the number of road accidents has increased and more number of people are dying in it. Researchers have tried to solve this problem by using virtual driver feature in the car. A computer vision based road detection and navi...

This paper describes an upper division elective course in rehabilitation engineering that addresses prosthetics and orthotics, wheelchair design, seating and positioning, and automobile modifications for individuals with disabilities. Faculty lectures are enhanced by guest lectures and class field trips. Guest lecturers include a prosthetist and a lower extremity amputee client, an engineer/pro...

Systems for automated image analysis are useful for a variety of tasks and their importance is still growing due to technological advances and an increase of social acceptance. Especially in the field of driver assistance systems the progress in science has reached a level of high performance. Fully or partly autonomously guided vehicles, particularly for road-based traffic, pose high demands o...

Airbags have received widespread recognition as an effective means of enhancing automobile safety. They are particularly effective in frontal and front angle collisions which otherwise would be fatal or cause serious injuries. Inflation of the bag helps protect the driver and front-seat-passenger from hitting the steering wheel, dashboard or windshield. In frontal crashes airbags have reduced d...

Abstract The population growth is high, and day by it increases in the world, there also a huge towards technologies. technologies aims at reducing human workload that saves time. In such case, increase of automobiles this generation very high compared to olden days. Due automobile, gradual terms traffic countries. We wait for long time based on cities. main cause some occur due illegal parking...

ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2003 INTRODUCTION The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that driver inattention is a causative factor in 25–30 percent of police-reported traffic crashes in the United States— approximately 1.2 million crashes per year.1,2 An inattentive driver may be distracted temporarily from the driving task by something inside or outside the vehicle, ma...