Smartphone Data Combined With AI To Help Stop Vehicles From Hitting Pedestrians

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people die in accidents involving motor vehicles. Recently, an AI startup called VizibleZone devised a method to possibly prevent some of these deaths. As reported by VentureBeat, VizibleZone's AI-powered system integrates data collected by both motor vehicles and smartphones in order to alert drivers to the potential location of a pedestrian, which can help drivers avoid tragic accidents. According to the World Health Organization, in 2018 around 1.5 million people were killed in road accidents. More than half of all of the deaths associated with these accidents involved a collision between a pedestrian or cyclist and a motor vehicle.