Problem Statement

Drowsiness and fatigue of automobile drivers reduce the drivers’ abilities of vehicle control, natural reflex, recognition and perception. Sleep deprivation​ is a major cause of motor vehicle accidents [​ Wikipedia​] and it can impair the human brain as much as alcohol can. Sleep-deprived driving (commonly known as tired driving, drowsy driving, or fatigued driving) is the operation of a motor vehicle while being cognitively impaired by a lack of sleep.

Braking Assistance: Another large share of road accidents occurs due to sudden appearance or negligence of the presence of some obstacle due to poor visibility or lack of concentration of driver. Automatic braking technologies combine sensors and brake controls to help prevent high-speed collisions. Some automatic braking systems can prevent collisions altogether, but most of them are designed to simply reduce the speed of a vehicle before it hits something. Since high-speed crashes are more likely to be fatal than low-speed collisions, automatic braking systems can save lives and reduce the amount of property damage that occurs during an accident. Some of these systems provide braking assistance​ to the driver, and others are actually capable of activating the brakes with no driver input. Sudden braking can also make the vehicle to slip/skid or topple.

Statistics and Facts : Deaths due to Drowsy Driving According the ranking survey done by WHO India in 2013, death due to road accident hold 9th Position among all. More than 1,37,000 people were killed in road accidents in 2013 alone, which means there is 1 death in every 5 minutes. Also, the NCRB data shows that from 2014-15 the road accident deaths rose from 3.1% to 5.1% in India alone. In the United States, 250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel every day, according to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in a national poll by the National Sleep Foundation, 54% of adult drivers said they had driven while drowsy during the past year with 28% saying they had actually fallen asleep while driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy driving is a factor in more than 100,000 crashes, resulting in 6,550 deaths and 80,000 injuries annually in the USA. Millions of drivers fall asleep at the wheel each month, and roughly 15 percent of all fatal crashes involve a drowsy driver.