Bengaluru: Artificial Intelligence can reduce road accidents, says a study

BENGALURU: Artificial Intelligence influences driving behaviour and could reduce fatal road incidents by 2035, says a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science along with Zoomcar and Netradyne.
Netradyne had commissioned its vision-based driver assistance and safety platform ‘Driveri’ in 500 Zoomcars on a pilot basis. “Driver is an advanced driver-assistance system that analyses the driving journey, road data and also monitors driving behaviour through AI.Driveri is equipped with four HD inward- and outward-looking cameras that record and trigger voice alerts based on driving incidents in real time,” the release said.
Driveri’s voice alerts and outward camera features were activated in 250 test cars, and in the remaining 250, the outward camera was switched on but the voice-alert feature deactivated. “There was a 14% reduction in accidents recorded just by enabling the voice alert feature and without any prior training, incentives or instructions to the drivers. There was a 27% decline in six of the overall 20+ driving metrics analysed by Driveri which include speeding, acceleration, hard breaking, hard turning, collision warning and maintaining distance,” it said.
Avneesh Agrawal, chief executive officer of Netradyne, “A large number of accidents in India are caused by driver behaviour, including fatigue, distraction, drowsiness and seat-belt non-compliance.”