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DMP puts AI and imaging to work to build safer vehicles

  In 2017, there were 511,455 crashes in the US involving a large truck or a bus. Of those, 4,455 were crashes with fatalities. In the EU, trucks account for about 2% of the vehicles on the road but represent 15% of fatalities. Many of these crashes can be attributed to limited visibility from the cockpit, including multiple blind spots. ...

Jon Peddie

  In 2017, there were 511,455 crashes in the US involving a large truck or a bus. Of those, 4,455 were crashes with fatalities. In the EU, trucks account for about 2% of the vehicles on the road but represent 15% of fatalities. Many of these crashes can be attributed to limited visibility from the cockpit, including multiple blind spots. DMP is working with partners to build smart mirrors that can reduce the rate of such accidents and fatalities due to those blind spots. DMP and its partners have built a system based on six cameras: two on each side of the
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