In early May, there was a tragic accident between a minibus --with young people-- and a backhoe, in Badajoz, Extremadura, southwest of Madrid. Died 5 young people. Recalling the sad news, I thought it would be interesting to show you a new Spanish invention, for more security on buses.
A team, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, has developed a safety system for buses, in order to reduce the number of accidents caused by blind spots and blind spots in the vision of the driver.
It is part of a project called SAFEBUS (Safe Bus), promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
This phenomenon of the blind spots of vision occurs due to the location of the mirrors and make sometimes dangerous situations and accidents, both when the vehicle is in gear and when in stop, especially if there are children around.
This device, developed together with the company C-Robots has passed tests and it is installed in a couple of buses fleets in the region; it is thought mainly for school buses.
The main problem, that the invention seeks to solve is hit and run at bus stops, where the view on the left side (or even right) may be limited.
The system warns the driver of potential problem with audible and visual signals. But if the hazard is not resolved, you can even block the movement of the vehicle disabling the throttle or steering wheel.
Technically the invention consist of some stereo vision cameras, an information screen next to the steering wheel and an advanced recognition software people. When the presence of people is detected, thanks to those cameras, the system acts, showing the signs or taking control of the vehicle to stop.
The SAFEBUS in Valencia, eastern Spain
The way these artificial vision systems learn to recognize objects, requires some training. In this case they acted with buses to collect visual data on aspect of more than 12,000 pedestrians, travelling along the city streets, taking however, in the perspective of cameras.
The filming of the videos was done in high traffic locations including train stations, schools and university of Valencia itself.
Well, I think this project is very interesting and I hope it can work in another countries.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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