Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, the number of traffic accidents worldwide reaches 1.25 million people involved in them. This is one of the main causes of death of people between 15 and 29 years old. Most of these deaths are in emergent countries where the rapid economic development has occurred together with an increased use of vehicles. Apart from being a public health issue, the injuries caused by these accidents are an economic-like problem especially in low and medium income countries where their GDP shows about a 3% economical decrease. Argentine has one of the highest mortality index in the world. In 2017 there were 7.213 deaths (provisional figure obtained up to January 11, 2018). This shows a daily rate of 20 deaths and a month rate of 600 deaths. These indexes raise the need of solving this problem including about 120.000 injured people which occurred annually and the significant material losses. This project comes out with the design of a device to place in old and new cars in order to prevent frontal collisions in Argentine roads, especially in roads with only two lines. This system will first join different types of cameras and sensors operated with a software that will alert the driver in advance in various ways, for example, when a vehicle is coming frontally and the overtake is not possible. The devise could use other technologies such as chips (RID types or similar ones), GPS, laser lights and others considered appropriate to make the device more complete, effective and economically accessible.

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