I’m convinced our partnership will prevent fatal accidents.”
#ANTENNE BAYERN DRIVERS#
We can alert a lot of road users to wrong-way drivers in time.
I’m pleased that together with Antenne Bayern, we are helping to improve traffic safety. Volkmar Denner, CEO of Robert Bosch GmbH.
#ANTENNE BAYERN DRIVER#
Our wrong-way driver warning system shows that we take a comprehensive approach to road safety – and we don’t restrict our thinking to the vehicles only,” says Dr. “Bosch is working hard to make mobility emissions-free, stress-free, and – not least of all – accident-free. This, in turn, will enhance the effectiveness of wrong-way driver warnings. The more connected vehicles there are, the closer-knit the invisible safety net will become. Cloud communication will cease as soon as a right-way driver leaves the at-risk zone. In addition, the cloud will warn all connected road users nearby without delay. If these two pieces of information clash, the system will alert the wrong-way driver to their mistake. Bosch technology then compares the vehicle’s current direction with the permitted direction of travel, which is stored in an online database. Whenever a vehicle approaches a freeway entrance or exit, the wrong-way driver warning system automatically transmits anonymized movement data to the Bosch cloud. This has been made possible thanks to an app function developed by Bosch.Ĭloud connectivity enables the app to issue a warning within seconds – not only to the wrong-way driver, but also to all right-way drivers in the same lane or adjacent ones. With the help of the Antenne Bayern app and its 250,000 active unique users, the nationwide radio station can immediately warn listeners throughout the country of hazardous situations caused by wrong-way drivers.
Clearly, every second counts when someone drives the wrong way. Nearly one-third of such incidents end after the wrong-way driver has traveled only 500 meters – in the worst case with fatal consequences. Drivers who use exit lanes to enter the freeway account for 46 percent of wrong-way accidents. On average, wrong-way drivers kill 20 people in the country each year. German radio broadcasts warn listeners of approximately 2,000 wrong-way drivers annually. This beneficial solution rapidly warns both wrong-way drivers and all other road users in the vicinity a push message gives everybody a chance to react in time. This partnership will allow Antenne Bayern to integrate Bosch’s cloud-based wrong-way driver warning into its app for radio listeners. Stuttgart/Ismaning, Germany – Bosch and the Antenne Bayern radio station aim to eliminate road fatalities caused by wrong-way drivers.
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