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From pothole location alerts to drowsiness detectors, teams come up with ideas to improve road safety at IIT-M hackathon

Three teams from across the country have been declared winners of hackathon “Hack-cidents” to improve road safety. The team from Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College, Mullana, focused on providing pothole location alert and drowsiness detection and alerting system. RNTBCI senior vice-president Harada Hirotake said while several advancements had focused on improving the vehicle performance and the environment, the teams that participated in the hackathon had presented ideas to tackle driver behaviour. Mr. Hirotake and B. Ravindran, head of Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI at the institute, flagged off a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus equipped with sensors to improve safety on the occasion.

The Hindu
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