While we do only one quarter of our driving at night, 50% of traffic deaths happen at night. It doesn’t matter whether the road is familiar or not, driving at night is always more dangerous. More than 40,000 people were killed in car crashes in 2016, according to Injury Facts.
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that as many as 6,000 fatal crashes a year are caused by drowsy driving — in addition to over 40,000 injuries and over 70,000 total crashes.
The above report states that more than 50% of deaths due to accidents happen at night. The most common reason is that people feel sleepy or tired due to long time work at the office.
Though AI has the perfect solution for it. Using Deep learning and neural networking.It combines the facial landmark and blink detection techniques
Many ideas of autonomous, self-driving vehicles argue that the first industry that will be completely and totally overhauled by self-driving cars/trucks (even before consumer vehicles) is the long haul tractor trailer business.
When we use raspberry,If a face is found, we apply facial landmark detection and extract the eye regions,Now that we have the eye regions, we can compute the eye aspect ratio to determine if the eyes are closed,If the eye aspect ratio indicates that the eyes have been closed for a sufficiently long enough amount of time, we’ll sound an alarm to wake up the driver
This way we can simply just using a laptop and a webcam can prevent night accidents and save lives.