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Honda’s Smartphone Based Pedestrian & Motorcycle Road Safety System
Most often the words smartphones and road safety are not used in a positive note for known reasons. In this context, however, smartphones have the potential to saves lives on the road.
Honda has developed a road safety technology that uses smartphones and wireless technology to alert people and prevent accidents from happening. The safety technology is divided into two distinct systems - Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) and Vehicle-to-Motorcycle (V2M).
Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P)
V2P uses Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) technology to detect and alert unwary pedestrians and car drivers about each other's presence. The system works with DSRC enabled smartphones, which, working in conjunction with the smartphone's GPS, detects the position of a pedestrian, his or her speed and direction relative to a car.
If the danger is apparent the system will alert both with audio and visual cues. Honda says, the system is most useful when pedestrians are hidden from view. Say, when they are on the other side of a large vehicle or around a corner.
Vehicle-to-Motorcycle (V2M)
V2M technology meanwhile, works in the same way as V2P, the only difference being that here pedestrians are replaced by two wheelers. This system is being researched and tested in cooperation with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
"While these are still experimental technologies," said Jim Keller, chief engineer for Honda R&D Americas, Inc, "they provide a strong indication of the future potential for the kinds of advanced collision sensing and predictive technologies Honda is developing to further reduce the potential for serious accidents, injuries and even fatalities."
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