ADAS systems made to salve lives or to generate revenues?

Friday, October 28, 2011
Hall 1-2 (San Jose Convention Center)
Oscar candanoza Rios , universidad del turabo, Gurabo, PR
Maria Teresa De Pedro Lucio , centro de automatica y robotica, Madrid, Spain
The advance driver assisted systems emerged at the beginning for the necessity of saves lives and also to generate a state of comfort in the driving process. These systems helps the people when they drive a vehicle, some of the most important ADAS systems are the blind spot detection that monitor the area and alert the driver if there is a hazardous situations, other is the lane departure warning this systems alerts the driver with an acoustical warning before the vehicle is about to leave the lane.

These systems are usually installed in luxury cars that can only be purchased by high-income people, remained outside the lives of people who have access only to conventional cars. After doing my research at the Center for Automation and Robotics in Madrid Spain, I realized that the main problem was in the marketing of sensors. Because there were only a few companies that were engaged in its production , at the start today companies like Toyota, Volvo and Honda among others have their own production lines and its own research centers additionally there are many more private companies producing sensors, in my seen as an industrial engineer student I realized that the mass production of sensors created a competition that led to lower the prices of the systems in general and also make possible the installation of the systems in most of the cars , and more than generate profits for the companies would save lives that is more important than anything