drivebuddyAI aims to lessen road accidents in India
Artificial intelligence-based auto tech start-up drivebuddyAI for commercial vehicles segment is set up with the target to boost road safety & reduce life critical accidents in India. DrivebuddyAI is working towards making usage of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision technologies to solve the challenge of driver distraction which is the reason behind 84% of total accidents happening on the globe.
drivebuddyAI- a start-up launched in 2019 by young entrepreneurs Nisarg Pandya- Founder & CEO and Kumar Ranjan- Vice President. DrivebuddyAI is rolling out a camera based edge IOT device that can be retrofit inside any vehicle to provide active safety, i.e. alerts when you are driving on the road to make certain that your drive is safe.
To supply active safety in transport fleets, drivebuddyAI installs camera-based & GPS enables driver assistant device called DRISHTI (Driver Safety Harness with Telematics & Intelligence), which not merely monitors the driver behavior but also help them to avoid possible dangers while driving by giving collision avoidance & driver distraction alerts in the vehicles.
These devices captures the video data of driving and helps the fleet managers get clarity on driver performance and human challenges of driving on the roads. drivebuddyAI’s cloud-based platform DOPE (Driver Observation & Profiling Interface), helps them to optimize the operations utilizing the intelligent insights/analytics from the pool of drivers.
India has among the highest rates of road crashes on the globe. Each year, about 150,000 persons lose their lives on India's roads, and a lot more than five times that number are injured or maimed forever as per the recent report titled "Delivering Road Safety in India" that was released at the 'Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety' in Stockholm by World Bank. The national highways alone claim one life a year for every two kilo-meters. This is ten times greater than the developed country threshold. Road crashes also impact economic growth, costing the economy between three to five 5 % of GDP a year.
Report mentioned that crash data collected in a sample of highway sections across Nepal, India, and Bangladesh reveal alarming gross annual fatality rates which range from 0.3 to 3 deaths per kilometer, at a yearly average of 0.87 fatalities per kilometer. In India, 34.5 % of fatalities in 2016 resulted from crashes on the National Highways, which comprise only 1 1.79 % of the country's total road network.
The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs, Nitin Gadkari, has reaffirmed India’s commitment to the United Nation’s goal set beneath the UN Decade of Action of drastically reducing road accidents by the entire year 2030 at ‘3rd High-Level Global Conference on Road Safety for Achieving Global Goals 2030′ in Stockholm in Sweden.
Currently, drivebuddyAI is running pilot projects in state buses of UPSTRC ( Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation) and so are in talks with a great many other states transport departments.
