1. Danger Zone Detection Beyond the Mirrors Presenter: Dave McDonald
Rosco Vision Systems

2. Agenda Background Current Technologies Future Technologies
Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007
Abigail’s Law – New Jersey
Current Technologies
Electronic Based Detection
Video Based Detection
Future Technologies

3. Background

4. Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007
2-Year-Old Cameron Was Killed When He Was Inadvertently Backed Over by an SUV Because the Vehicle’s Blind Zone
Prevents Accidental Injury in Non-Traffic Accidents
Auto-Reverse For Power Windows
Back-Over Avoidance Blind Zones Regulations
Brake Transmission Shift Interlock
Establish Public Online Database
Non-Traffic & Non-Crash Related Fatalities

5. Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007
Back-Over Avoidance
U.S. Department of Transportation Revise Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 111 (FMVSS 111)
Expanded Requirements for Rear Visibility With Integration of:
Additional Mirrors
Back-up Sensors & Cameras
Other Technology
All Vehicles Must Be in Compliance Within 4 Years

6. Vehicle Backover Avoidance Technology Study
November 2006
REPORT TO CONGRESS
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation Washington, DC 20590

7. Original equipment sensor detection systems are marketed as parking aids and do not purport to detect people. Typically, the vehicle owners’ manuals contain cautionary warnings that tell drivers the limitations of the technology as a pedestrian detection system. Examples of these warnings are shown below:
“This system is not designed to prevent contact with small or moving objects. The system is designed to provide a warning to assist the driver in detecting objects to avoid damaging the vehicle. The system may not detect smaller objects, particularly those close to the ground.” 2007 Lincoln Navigator
“Sensors have dead spaces in which objects cannot be detected. Be especially alert for small children and animals since they are not always detected by the sensors.” 2004 Audi A8

8. Testing showed that the performance of sensor-based (ultrasonic and radar) parking aids in detecting child pedestrians behind the vehicle was typically poor, sporadic and limited in range. Based on calculations of the distance required to stop from a typical backing speed, detection ranges exhibited by the systems tested were not sufficient to prevent collisions with pedestrians or other objects.
Of the technologies tested for their potential to reduce backover incidents, the camera based systems may have the greatest potential to provide drivers with reliable assistance in identifying people in the path of the vehicle when backing.

9. Abigail’s Law – New Jersey
Middlesex County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Kuberiet’s Daughter, Abigial Was Killed in 2003 When She Was Struck By a School Bus She Walked in Front Of
All Newly Manufactured School Buses Must Be Equipped with a Sensor System to
Determine Presence of People & Objects:
Frontal Detection
Rearward Detection

10. Current Technologies

11. Electronic Based Detection
Types of Sensory Technology
Microwave
Measuring the Reflected Energy from Target Vehicles Within the Field of View to Detect Occupancy, Presence and Velocity Directly
Doppler
Transmits a Radar Beam at a Moving Target as it Approaches or Recedes from the Radar Source to Measure the Velocity of Detected Objects
Ultrasonic
Operate by Transmitting Ultrasonic Energy and Measuring the Energy Reflected by the Target to Obtain Measurements of Vehicle Presence, Speed, and Occupancy

12. Electronic Based Detection
Types of Sensory Technology
Microwave
Doppler
Ultrasonic

13. Electronic Based Detection
Reliability Studies

14. Types of Video Technology
Video Based Detection
Types of Video Technology
Camera & Monitor Systems
Improves Driver Visibility
Backup Cameras
Side Cameras

15. Video Based Detection
Reliability Studies

16. Future Technologies

17. Smart Cameras Technologies Include Lane Departure Warning
Auto Pedestrian Detection
Automatic Emergency Braking
Forward Collision Warning Systems
Automatic 911 Crash Notification

18. Thank You

19. Sources https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr1216/text