Smart Steering WheelEssay Preview: Smart Steering WheelReport this essayRoads are populated by vehicles that are part of this modern world and used by our growing population inside and outside of the city and by means people rely on it to go from one place to another faster and less effort. But there are various unexpected event that causes fatal injuries to the user of the vehicle and even make collateral damage to others such as driver fatigue or drowsiness while traveling that can be prevented in some way. There are lots of different studies and developments from roads to vehicles on preventing an accident throughout the years past and still continues progressing up to this day. This study focuses on vehicle to be part of preventing errors to lessen accidents on the road.
The development of smart steering wheel system is the development technologies for detecting or preventing conditions of drowsiness. According to research, drowsiness is a medical condition and sleep disorder wherein an affected individual begins to feel tired or sleepy in an unsuitable time and place on unusual way. That includes having drowsiness while driving on the road. Compared to a usual driver, drivers that drove long hours such as truck drivers, provincial bus drivers, cab drivers and those on the rent-a-car drivers are commonly affected by drowsiness, making them prone to mistakes and may cause accidents and collateral damage
The smart steering wheel system can be a countermeasure that has the function to prevent such events that are occurring on a real-time environment. Smart steering wheel system can monitor the pressure applied which is necessary in order to detect drowsiness. In this case, when the drowsiness is detected according to the measurement or the amount of pressure needed, sensible signals and movements are issued to alert the user. The aim of the study will be positioned on the design and development of the steering wheel that uses a smart system for the drivers to improve their efficiency during driving and to lessen the human errors when considering drowsiness and also minimize road accident.
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About the Authors
Oscar Alsop, MD, R.J. Reichert, MD, PhD, and Professor, Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania
P.O., Universidad de Venezuela, Espanol, Puerto Rico, U.S.A
Reichert worked at the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DEERSR) of the Department of Physics, Universidad de Venezuela, Espanol, Puerto Rico in 1995 and 2003 as a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental and Physiological Sciences in the Universidad de Puerto Rico’s Department of Physics; and he has conducted research with the Instituto Primero and de la SĂŁo Paulo de Unida, Universidad de SĂŁo Paulo from 2007 to 2008, as a Professor, at the Institute for Environmental and Physiological Sciences of the National University, in 2010 and 2013. See www.evr.uc.empa.ept.es for research on his latest work.
Additional contributors
This study was funded by the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources of the University of Puebla, California, in cooperation with the Institute for Environmental and Physiological Sciences of Instituto Primero de Unida (IUPA), Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de la Ciudad de MĂ©xico, CĂłrdoba, Mexico, and the Center for Scientific Inquiry in the Office Of Health Resources, the University of La Paz, Instituto Internacional de SĂŁo Paulo, the Universidad de Rio de Janeiro, and the State of Texas.
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Appendix
A brief description of the fieldwork carried out in this research is provided in Supplementary Table 1 and Tables 1 and 2.
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