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mTADA: Mobile Tracking and Advanced Driver Assistance

Authors:
Alexiei Dingli
Christopher Bartolo

Keywords: active driver assistance, driver behaviour, motor accidents, driver safety

Abstract:
Safe driving requires knowledge of the surrounding traffic environment. Such knowledge will enable the driver to predict possible dangerous situations and events. Driver distraction and reckless driving are two cases, which reduce the ability of a driver to perceive these situations. This is the reason why Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) are being introduced. In this paper, we will tackle how mobile devices may help out in ADASs. Many companies, such as BMW and Audi have been developing their own ADASs, but offer them as optional accessories at an additional cost, being available only with new vehicles. The aim of the system we are developing is to help out in decreasing the amount of motor vehicle accidents by developing a low cost solution, which can be easily downloaded to and installed on a mobile device, and which may be used on any vehicle. The final results prove that the system was quite successful during tests, with many people claiming that they would use such a system on a regular basis.

Pages: 75 to 82

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: November 17, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-313-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 17, 2013 to November 21, 2013