Machine Learning Will Save India's Cows from Bad Drivers

In certain parts of the world, cow collisions are the stuff of legend. A car traveling at any significant speed up against a full-grown cow travelling at no speed is most often the end of the car, the cow, and maybe the human(s) inside of the car. That's up to 1,800 pounds of beef standing there with a center of gravity well-optimized to ensure that those pounds wind up where they can be most dangerous. Cows on roads are a big problem in India, where rapid urbanization and industrialization has meant that new roads are increasingly being laid through rangeland. A 2015 study found that some 6 percent of accidents in India can be attributed to animals on the road.