Intelligent Driving Assistant Based on Road Accident Risk Map Analysis and Vehicle Telemetry

Sensors (Basel). 2020 Mar 22;20(6):1763. doi: 10.3390/s20061763.

Abstract

Through the application of intelligent systems in driver assistance systems, the experience of traveling by road has become much more comfortable and safe. In this sense, this paper then reports the development of an intelligent driving assistant, based on vehicle telemetry and road accident risk map analysis, whose responsibility is to alert the driver in order to avoid risky situations that may cause traffic accidents. In performance evaluations using real cars in a real environment, the on-board intelligent assistant reproduced real-time audio-visual alerts according to information obtained from both telemetry and road accident risk map analysis. As a result, an intelligent assistance agent based on fuzzy reasoning was obtained, which supported the driver correctly in real-time according to the telemetry data, the vehicle environment and the principles of secure driving practices and transportation regulation laws. Experimental results and conclusions emphasizing the advantages of the proposed intelligent driving assistant in the improvement of the driving task are presented.

Keywords: accident risk maps; driving assistant; driving diagnosis; driving safety.

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Automobile Driving*
  • Automobiles
  • Humans
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Safety
  • Telemetry / methods*