Making cycling safer with AWS DeepLens and Amazon SageMaker object detection

According to the 2018 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Traffic Safety Facts, in 2018, there were 857 fatal bicycle and motor vehicle crashes and an additional estimated 47,000 cycling injuries in the US . While motorists often accuse cyclists of being the cause of bike-car accidents, the analysis shows that this is not the case. The most common type of crash involved a motorist entering an intersection controlled by a stop sign or red light and either failing to stop properly or proceeding before it was safe to do so. The second most common crash type involved a motorist overtaking a cyclist unsafely. In fact, cyclists are the cause of less than 10% of bike-car accidents.