On May 30th, an Israeli start-up company, Nexar, announced that it will launch an API called Lights, which will provide real-time information on each traffic signal in the city and predict the color and timing of the traffic lights.
The company, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, was founded in 2015 and is an AI-based traffic recorder APP to monitor road safety startups. The main product is an application called Nexar. The app uses a combination of computer vision and sensors to detect accidents and analyze road conditions through the smartphone's camera and sensors, and then sends real-time alerts to other vehicles on its V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) network.
Nexar also developed a Nexar Dashcam APP that provides a location tracker that can record video inside and outside the car and connect to cloud storage data. These data can be used by drivers as evidence of a collision accident and can also be collected for analysis and development. Therefore, Nexar's technology has also been restored by the insurance company to the scene of the accident to help them conduct a claim investigation.
The database that will be used by this Lights API is from Nexar users. Cars equipped with driving recorders will continuously capture and transmit data about surrounding things, including traffic lights. The collected information will be analyzed and processed in real time.
For example, the traffic lights will change colors and will be transmitted within one second. With computer vision AI and V2V networks, Lights can display the state of traffic lights at the end of the road in advance when the car is driving into the intersection. It also displays a countdown. When the car turns, it can quickly switch the traffic light information of the current road.
Nexar CEO and co-founder Eran Shir said that due to the driver's miscalculation of the traffic light time (a lot of traffic lights in the United States do not show a countdown), the intersection often caused by the driver's collision. In the accident, Nexar hopes to solve these problems by providing traffic light forecasting services. He said that Nexar's study found that providing drivers with traffic light forecasts can reduce their anxiety level, and even the frequency with which they send text messages while driving can also decrease. The latter is also one of the main causes of car accidents.
Nexar believes that navigation and shared car services will also use Lights to optimize travel routes and shorten travel time. Elan Hill said: "With Lights, we can predict the status of each traffic light in the city." Viewing and drawing road maps in real time will enable Nexar and our partners to have an overview of the entire city and streets at all times. This understanding will allow partners to solve practical problems and ultimately create a safer path for current and future self-driving vehicles.
The Lights API ultimately served Nexar's mission of "a world without car accidents." Nexar wants to create a new map that brings together every object on the road, including traffic lights, vehicles, pedestrians, signposts, cyclists, street lights, ambulances and more. They hope that the Nexar APP will eventually provide a range of functions including traffic light monitoring, traffic jams, road hazards, infrastructure breakdowns, parking, pedestrians, signposts, cyclists and emergency vehicles. Elan Hill said that Nexar's goal is to "eliminate the car accident before the realization of self-driving vehicles and make our road safer."
However, at present, Nexar is still far from this goal. Since its release in 2016, 740 cities in 160 countries have used Nexar's APP and have traveled more than 160 million kilometers. Its current largest market is New York City (Nexar claims that more than 10% of shared car drivers are using), San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Las Vegas. The number of users is not that much.
The ultimate effect of the Lights API is yet to be officially put on the market. According to Nexar, Lights will be released in the first batch of partners in the third and fourth quarter of this year, and will be fully launched by the end of the first quarter of 2019. Currently, Lights has received support from New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas and plans to add 30 more U.S. cities next year.
At the same time, one of Nexar's competitors, the software and hardware of Israeli machine vision company Mobileye, which was acquired by Intel for $15.3 billion last year, can also detect road markings, identify and read traffic signs, traffic lights and direction signs. Analyze the field of view to predict possible collisions with humans, vehicles, and other types of obstacles, and plot a drivable road map for a self-driving vehicle.
Source: Qdaily
https://www.qdaily.com/articles/53832.html
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