Driver Assist System DAS to Prevent Road Accidents
International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 3 (3):
1613--1616 (March 2015)DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.1503156
Abstract
Accidents occurring in traffic are increasing every day with the Statistics of 2015 reported, at least 10 people died and another 35 were injured when a bus fell into a ditch on February 4,2015 while travelling between the Indian cities of Pune and Satara. The risk that comes along with footboard travelling in buses has taken many lives. With accidents reported, 4 students travelling on footboard of an overcrowded bus were crashed to death fatally against a lorry on 10th December, 2012 at Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Chennai. Footboard travelling in buses is dangerous and the event must be prevented by implementing a system with advanced technology that stops passengers from travelling in footboard. In typical Metropolitan buses doors are available to shut off after the passenger boards and disembark the bus. But this is not anti-tampered and so it causes the drivers to easily falsify it. The DAS features a system in which the microcontroller continuously monitors the output from the sensors placed in the footboard of the bus and stops the bus if a person stands on the footboard for more than the programmed time. The system also has advanced lane detection system and IR based driver fatigue identifying system. This system comprises of the distance reflective sensor that can prevents accidents by controlling vehicle speed. It also incorporates a LCD display of the passenger count and LED indication about seat availability to the commuters outside the bus.