{"id":10421,"date":"2022-03-01T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1381602"},"modified":"2022-03-01T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:30:12","slug":"this-tech-can-make-road-deaths-a-thing-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10421","title":{"rendered":"This tech can make road deaths a thing of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the first six months of 2021, more than 20,000 people<\/a> died in car accidents in the US alone, the majority of which was attributed to dangerous, distracted, or drunk driving. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what if advanced technology could eliminate human weaknesses? Could we then make zero deaths possible? <\/span><\/p>\n

The latest research<\/a> by Neural Propulsion Systems<\/a> (NPS) thinks so. It posits that <\/span>new technology can actually enable vehicles to eliminate roadway deaths \u2014 <\/span>with or withou<\/span><\/i>t human supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n

And we\u2019re not talking about a far-off future where super-smart autonomous vehicles<\/a> occupy the roads. No, we\u2019re talking about the here and now. <\/span><\/p>\n

But before we get to the tech itself, let\u2019s first go through the basic requirements that would enable this lofty goal: <\/span><\/p>\n

The three premises for zero accidents<\/h3>\n
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  1. Roadway users never collide.<\/li>\n
  2. Vehicles always stay on the road.<\/li>\n
  3. Vehicles always stay upright.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What does this require from a vehicle?<\/h3>\n

    First off, this means that a car\u2019s advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) \u2014 or autonomous tech \u2014 needs to have 100% awareness of its surrounding environment at all times. <\/span><\/p>\n

    It also means that the vehicle\u2019s vision needs to be highly precise even in the worst conditions, think darkness, fog, buildings, and other obstructions.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Most importantly though, the data collected by the car\u2019s sensors needs, in turn, to be analyzed extremely fast to provide a sufficient safety margin for action. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Specifically, NPS has calculated that this requires sensing and processing a peak data rate of 100x10\u00b9\u00b2<\/span><\/span> bits per second (100 Terabits per second).<\/span><\/p>\n

    That\u2019s 10 million times greater<\/a> than the sensory data rate our eyes provide to our brains.<\/span><\/p>\n

    What kind of tech do we need?<\/h3>\n

    To sense and process the required information we need the following: <\/span><\/p>\n