WTSID 2013 ICT
improving Road Safety. The United Nations
is organizing a decade of Road Safety with WHO during May2013, in182 countries..
It indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths remains
unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year. .
ICT’s Improving Road Safety
theme of ITU for the Decade of Road Safety, leading worldwide efforts in developing state
of the art ICT standards for Driver Safety
that utilize a combination of computers, communications, positioning and
automation technologies, including in-car radars for collision avoidance. Standards
for safe user interface systems in vehicles as well as optimizing driving
performance by eliminating unsafe technology-related distractions while
driving.
This year gathering at the ITU,Geneva recipients of award of
ICT Improving Road Safety the three honorable names under:
Excellency Ueli Maurer, President of the Swiss
Confederation, member of the Communical Council Hinwil is a center of the Swiss
motorsports industry and is home to the Sauber Formula 1 racing team.
Switzerland is among the safest countries for road users in
the world and has recorded a significant decrease in road traffic mortality in
the period 2001-2010. The Swiss Council for Accident Prevention has been
actively involved with ITU developing standards for Driver Assistance Systems
and related systems for accident prevention in road traffic.
Honorable Volkmar Denner Chairman of the board of Management
of Robert Bosch GmbH.and its Chief Technical Officer,
Honorable Jean Todt, President of the International
Automobile Federation (FIA) is a household name in motorsports. Under his
leadership Scudena Ferrari won 14 Formula 1 World titles – including the
consecutive titles with Michael Schumacher – and 106 Grand Prix.
Having participated at the ITU program of Connected Car at
Geneva prior to the Geneva Motor Show, trails of Connected Car with the member
of International Automobile Manufacturing Organization, which conforms to ICT
standards. Car manufacturing has gone to
standardization under ITU, standardization p conforming to safety standards
under UN. Integration of ICT to car
manufacturing, consolidation is witnessed with recent takeover of Ford by IBM
follows naturally from carmaker’s argument that it should be seen primarily as
a software and systems integration firm. But IBM’s plan to sell Ford’s
manufacturing operations to Magna, a big components-maker, has fallen through.
Self driving car took a temporary knock. City Governments in
China pressed ahead with their ban on manual on manual driving on busy arterial
roads to cut congestion and accidents.
Now the practice is spreading to Western cities. The Mayor of Toronto,
Justin Bieber, recently pushed through a radical plan to ban all private cars
in the city center and replace all cabs with driverless taxis. Similar moves in
California have prompted the creating of the Steering Wheel Club, which defends
Americans’ right to drive it. It is led
by a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association.
Cars now considered perfectly safe when piloting themselves
in any situation. Even so, lawmakers in most countries have been slow to repeal
the laws on driving tests and licenses, and in most places the rules still call
for at least one sober “driver” sitting in a front seat. But driving tests have been simplified now
that there is no longer a need for manual maneuvering into parking bays. Sitting in a front seat, but driving tests
have been simplified now that there is no longer a need for manual maneuvering
into parking bays. The Silver Riders, a pressure group formed by octogenararian
baby-boomers, is campaigning to scrap driving licenses altogether so that
elderly Americans can get around in their self driving motors no matter what
physical shape they are in. The campaign now become generation-spanning, attracting
support from many teenagers who want to skip driving lessons.
Ubiquitous on-board systems for monitoring speed limits and
other traffic restrictions on every stretch of road have yielded some
unexpected savings: highways authorities no longer have to maintain superfluous
traffic signs. Britain’s Royal Automobile Club recently launched a
nostalgia-fuelled drive to exhibit a representative collection of them in a new
museum alongside Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction.
The past two decades have been an exciting time for the
motor industry, but not always in a good way. The battle to achieve scale to
survive in a global market produced victims as well as inners, and some of the
resulting deals were better than others. Toyota’s absorption of Honda in 2027 went
surprisingly well, though it cost a Japanese minister his job. VW’s merger with
Tata Motors came as something of a surprise, but with hindsight it made sense:
it allowed the combined company to claim the crown as the world’s biggest
carmaker and take the lead in the booming South Asian market.
Today almost a billion cars now roll along the world’s
highways. For the world to catch up with American levels of car ownership, the
global fleet would have to quadruple. Even a fraction of that growth would
present fearsome challenges, from congestion and the price of fuel to pollution
and global warming. Trend in car Driving License in the US by late
1970’s 86% of American 18 year olds – of both sexes –had a driving license. But
the trend went into reverse; researchers with stricter regulations and smart
technology are making cars cleaner, more fuel efficient and safer than ever
before. A variety of “driver assistance”
technologies are appearing on new cars, which will not only take a lot of the
stress out of driving in traffic but also prevent many accidents. More and more
new cars can reverse-park, read traffic signs, maintain a safe distance in
steady traffic and brake automatically to avoid crashes. Some car makers are
promising technology that detects pedestrians and cyclists, again overruling
the driver and stopping the vehicle before it hits them. Google and a number of firms are busy trying
to take driver assistance to its logical conclusion by creating cars that drive
themselves to a chosen destination without a human at the controls. Google co-founder predicts that driverless
cars will be ready for sale to customers within five years. The prototype that Google already uses to
ferry their staff along Californian freeways are impressive. Google is seeking to offer the world a
driverless car built from scratch, but it is more likely to evolve, and be
accepted by drivers, in stages.
As sensors and assisted-driving software demonstrate their ability
to cut accidents, regulators will move to make them compulsory for all new
cars. Insurers are already pressing motorists to accept black boxes that
measure how carefully they drive: these will provide a mass of data which is
likely to show that putting the car on autopilot is often safer than driving it.
Computers never drive drunk of while texting.
If and when cars go completely driverless – for those who
want this – the benefits will be enormous. Google gave a taste by putting a
blind man in a prototype and filming him being driven off to buy takeaway
tacos. Huge number of elderly and
disabled people could regain their personal mobility. The colossal toll of
deaths and injuries from road accidents-1.2 killed a year worldwide, and 2m
hospital visits a year in America alone-should tumble down, along with the
costs o health systems and insurers.
Driverless cars should also ease congestion and save fuel.
Computers brake faster than humans. And
they can sense when cars ahead when cars ahead of them are braking. So
driverless cars will be able to drive much closer to each other than humans
safely can. On motorways they could form
fuel-efficient “road trains”, gliding along in the slipstream of the vehicle in
front. People who commute by car will
gain hours each day to work rest or read a newspaper.
The cars software will learn the tricks that humans use to
avoid hazards; for example, braking when a ball bounces into the road, because
a child may be chasing it. Google’s self
driving cars have already clocked up over 700,000km, more than many humans ever
drive; and everything they learn will become available to every other car using
the software. As for the liability
issue, the law should be changed to make sure that when cases arise, the courts
take into account the overall safety benefits of self-driving technology.
In conclusion the standardization in auto manufacturing and
adoption of international standardization on safety will help the Governments
and national regulatory authorities a safe reliable transport. Guidelines available for the automotive
manufacturing organizations, and regulatory authorities.
