Abellio London Achieves Significant Reductions in Collisions and Injuries through Mobileye Safety Trial
November 14 2018 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
What's New: Abellio London*, one of London’s leading bus
operators, has launched a major trial of safety technology from
Mobileye, an Intel company. The trial is supported by Transport for
London (TfL) through a grant from its Bus Safety Innovation Fund.
Focused on reducing bus collisions with cyclists, motorcycles,
pedestrians and other road users, the trial’s findings to date show
the Mobileye collision avoidance technology has reduced avoidable
collisions by 29 percent and reduced injuries from such collisions
by 60 percent.
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The Mobileye collision avoidance system
determines if there is a potential danger and warns drivers with
visual and audible alerts. Abellio London, a London bus operator,
has launched a trial of safety technology from Intel's Mobileye.
(Source: Kevin Murphy/Intel Corporation)
“All over the world, bus companies are
investing in Mobileye technology to improve safety standards,
ensuring that drivers can take prompt action when danger is
detected. Abellio takes safety very seriously, and they’ve been a
superb partner, helping their drivers get the very best out of the
system.”-- Gil Ayalon, director of EMEA at Mobileye
What It Is: Abellio London’s safety technology trial is
employing Mobileye's aftermarket collision avoidance technology,
which is engineered by the same team developing some of the world's
most sophisticated advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and
autonomous vehicle technology. The solution can be retrofitted to
almost any vehicle already on the road. For bus drivers, in
particular, the Mobileye system provides critical audio and visual
alerts that assist in preventing or mitigating collisions. Features
include:
- Forward Collision Warning: Warns
drivers of an impending rear-end collision with a car, truck or
motorcycle.
- Pedestrian and Cyclist Collision
Warning: Warns drivers of impending collision with pedestrians
or cyclists.
- Headway Monitoring and Warning:
Warns drivers if the distance between a bus and a vehicle ahead
becomes unsafe.
- Lane Departure Warning: Monitors
lane markings and warns drivers of unintentional lane
deviation.
- Speed Limit Indicator and Traffic
Sign Recognition: Recognizes and reads speed limit signs; warns
drivers when they are exceeding the speed limit.
Abellio London operates 48 bus routes across London and runs
more than 740 vehicles. For the trial, 66 buses on three of the
company’s London routes have been equipped with Mobileye collision
avoidance technology – each having a camera unit installed on the
inside of the windshield and a display placed in the driver’s cab.
The final results of the trial should be available by the end of
this year.
Why it Matters: According to data from the U.S.
Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, an estimated 119,000 injury-causing crashes
involving large trucks or buses occurred in 2016 in the U.S.; in
addition, 4,440 large trucks and buses were involved in fatal
crashes during that year.1 Collision avoidance technology can play
a critical role in reducing both the high volume of crashes and the
injuries and fatalities they cause. Findings to date from Abellio
London’s trial of Mobileye’s technology indicate a 29 percent
reduction in avoidable collisions – those which are in the driver’s
control to prevent – and a 60 percent reduction in injuries
resulting from avoidable collisions (that is, even when collisions
nonetheless take place, they are significantly less serious). These
results reflect the significant safety increase that collision
avoidance systems can bring about both in the U.S. and globally.
And they suggest that higher standards in bus safety are easily
achievable in cities and regions beyond London that have the will
to pursue them.
More Context: Autonomous Driving at Intel | Mobileye
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1 “Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2016,” Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA) 2018.
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