A new digital road safety tool that could predict potential incident hotspots is to go under trial from this summer by a Ford-led consortium – and vehicle owners are being invited to take part.
The carmaker’s collaborative work with experts and academics has now received financial backing from Innovate UK and is exploring how information from connected vehicles could be linked up with data from roadside sensors and local authorities to predict the likely locations and possible root causes of potential road safety hotspots.
The project will analyze detailed telematics data from the fleet of vehicles alongside information from up to 25 additional smart sensors to be provided in Oxfordshire by Vivacity Labs. The work will help develop the digital road safety algorithm and tool for use as a scalable, commercial product that could bring road safety benefits globally. The consortium will also seek to uncover further real-world applications for predictive road safety-related insights.
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