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The United States Department of Transportation Intelligent Vehicle Initiative program
Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology program
Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology Initiatives
USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems
The Federal Transit Administration
DOT'S ITS PROGRAM - EXPLORATORY INITIATIVES -- 2005
NHTSA - People Saving People
NHTSA - Safety School
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SEVERE VEHICLE PILEUPS
"We designed the system (Emergency Warning System for Vehicles, US Patent # 6,714,127) with the target intent to help eliminate vehicle chain reaction accidents. The alert intensity (precious seconds) early warning level notification you receive inside your vehicle will vary with the nature and severity of the immediate emergency encountered ahead (static or dynamic). -- Luis Perez **** "The chain-reaction crash involving 33 vehicles started about 10:30 Thursday morning, when seven semi-trucks and a passenger car slammed into each other and burst into flames. Subsequent crashes occurred as drivers stopped or swerved to avoid the other accidents." http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/942332.html **** "A total of 320 policemen and firefighters were mobilized to rescue the injured and direct the traffic flow." http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2004-01/07/content_296235.htm **** "I was driving on the freeway and all of a sudden, it was like somebody flipped a switch and it became a whiteout," said Pattianne Gibson of Lakewood, Ohio. "You really couldn't see five feet in front of you. You couldn't see taillights." "The cars kept coming — Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom!" she said. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2001/2001-12-29-pa-crash.htm **** "It looked like the rig was slowing down and people didn't see it in time," said Wayne Winn, 45, of Veneta. Winn was traveling behind the motor home but was able to stop without a collision. He helped pull people out of the wreck and led them to safety at the side of the road. Their blood was on his T-shirt. http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/07/20/a1.cr.fatals.0720.html **** "One pileup began when a passenger vehicle stopped
in the middle of the road, authorities said". "Cars and
trailers and tractors were spewed across all lanes," said Arizona
Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Volden. "It really and
truly looked like a train wreck." **** "If we're eating, reading, writing or talking while behind the wheel, who's driving?" said Kathy Lusby-Treber, executive director of NETS. "Every day when I'm on patrol I see countless examples," Trooper Eric Radwick of the Virginia State Police said at a news conference to announce the educational campaign. "Cars have become mobile offices and mobile living rooms." Rosalyn Millman, NHTSA deputy administrator, said consequences of driver distraction range from economic loss to matters of life and death. "Anything that distracts the driver from his or her primary task is something that concerns us," Millman said. "Manufacturers and vendors have a responsibility to assess and understand the hazards posed by any device that they install or recommend for use by the driver -- before they are offered to their customers," she said. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/driv28.shtml **** "Fosso said 42 vehicles were involved in the first accident and about a dozen were involved in the second. No one was killed but about 15 people were injured, some seriously, he said". "Cars just on every side of the road, in the ditches -- pretty
bad," said Nicole LaRussa, who had been driving in Racine County. **** "It sounded like gunfire going off," he said.
"It just exploded. It was just unbelievable. What you're thinking
is, 'How can the cars just keep coming and coming? Can't they see this
accident?" **** "There was more to come. A tractor-trailer owned and driven by James Delozier Jr., of Morristown, Tenn., came upon the scene moments later and was unable to stop, Woodin said. He hit Gnegy's truck, which spun him around, and then hit another semi parked on the shoulder, Woodin said. That one was being operated by Bruce Miller, 33, of Acme, Pa., and owned by Reid Cavanaugh of Connellsville, Pa. There were a lot of people pulled over on the shoulder, trucks and cars, and one truck tried coming through on the passing lane," said Woodin, who responded to the accident. That truck was driven by David Gnegy, 47, of Virginia, and leased to Charles Karper Inc. of Chambersburg, Pa. It was carrying about 6,000 pounds of steel beams." http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/1999/01/19/crash.html **** "Fog shrouds wrecked cars following a multi-vehicle accident on I-68 in western Maryland Friday. Two people died and 100 cars were involved in pileups." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/29/attack/main555994.shtml **** "The magnitude of vehicles and the damage and devastation was
mind-boggling," said Cpl. Rob Moroney, a state police
spokesman." **** Motorists who suddenly come upon whiteout conditions with little or
no visibility should slow down but "absolutely do not stop,"
police say. "Stay in your lane, and proceed very
cautiously," said Sgt. Abel Cruz of the Michigan State Police post
in Gaylord. If a car goes into the ditch or is struck by another
vehicle in a whiteout situation, passengers should stay in their
vehicle, Cruz stressed. "Once they get out, they've just made
themselves a target for vehicles that may be out of control," he
said. Winter drivers should drive with headlights on and dimmed
both during the day and in the evening, Cruz added. **** At least 50 vehicles were caught in deadly chain reactions about eight miles west of Pendleton. High winds from a low pressure front that crossed the Cascades early Saturday are blamed for the blinding dust storm. The worst crash was in the eastbound lanes, where a collision between five semi trucks and at least 11 passenger vehicles killed four people. "It was really grisly," said Harold Fell of Toledo, Wash., who escaped injury in the pileup. "There were cars on fire. A truck landed on top of one vehicle." One car was on its nose, embedded in the back of a truck, said Ken Alexander of Portland. The driver was upright in the car and conscious. "I reached up and held his hand," he said. "I told him it would be all right. There was nothing else I could do." "For fatalities and destruction, this ranks right up there with the worst I've ever seen," Roxbury said. "For fatalities, it's probably the worst." http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/1999/0926.html **** DEVORE, Calif. - More than 60 cars and tractor-trailers crashed on Interstate 15 in a fiery series of pileups Thursday along fog-shrouded Cajon Pass. Two dozen people were reported injured. Five vehicles were engulfed in flames and several trucks jackknifed." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648372/ **** At least 100 vehicles were involved in three separate, chain-reaction wrecks on Interstate 5 near Oceanside on Saturday. At least one person was killed and dozens were injured, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Kohler. One of the chain reactions apparently began when drivers stopped to help a car that had left the road and rolled over. Sgt. Dennis Martinez of the California Highway Patrol said heavy fog reduced visibility down to 20 feet along I-5. "Out of nowhere, the cars just stopped and
we had no place to go and then, all of a sudden, we heard the screeching
behind us of brakes, and we braced for impact, and that was it," **** This year, on the Friday before Memorial Day, 73 vehicles collided in
six separate wrecks on both sides of Interstate 68 in western Maryland,
near Finzel. Two people died and 60 were injured. It took almost 24
hours to clear the wreckage. **** "Every year there are some pretty spectacular accidents and pile-ups due to ice, especially "black ice". Black ice is the invisible and very slippery ice that usually thinly coats the entire surface of a road. It's particularly prevalent in the Central Valley during winter and the Sierra late autumn to early spring." http://www.caldrive.com/conditions.html **** "A total of about 70 vehicles were involved in what witnesses
said was complete chaos on the West Autobahn. **** Chain-reaction pileups blamed on dense winter fog are not unusual in
the area. On Jan. 3, 77 vehicles smashed together near Caliente in a
series of 15 rapid-fire collisions that killed one man and injured 15
others. **** Nearly 200 cars and big-rig trucks
collided on the fogbound Long Beach Freeway, California, U.S. early
Sunday, injuring dozens of people, nine critically, and closing the
highway for hours. http://english1.people.com.cn/200211/04/eng20021104_106231.shtml **** (this one personally affected me directly on that day (~ >2hr travel delay), as it happened to affect exit 24 by Tewksbury) - - IVT systems installed could have helped to provide early warning to motorists of impending disaster here! Today, let us build an intelligent vehicle that encompasses a car that can quickly learn from its immediate environment and respond to a dangerous situation accordingly -- such as (for example) automatically, autonomously, and simultaneously slowing down all potentially affected vehicles in the vicinity of an emergency scenario down to safer speeds. I believe such accident would not have happened in the first place! **** 3
car pileup in Germany - - Another reason why Radar-based system is
not good choice for severe braking warning transmission in multiplicity
of vehicles communications -- MEMS, Compass, and Transceiver are
designed to operate fault-free. For example, non-radar based emergency
warning system for vehicles do not reflect unwanted, potentially
dangerous stray signals. **** ****
**** A highway pileup killed at least eight people Thursday, April 26, 2007, on a rainy stretch of the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind., State Police said. The deaths included five people in a single vehicle, said 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten of the Indiana State Police. Four of the victims were Amish residents of nearby LaGrange County who riding in a car, Bristol Fire Chief William Dempster said. (AP Photo/The Truth, J. Tyler Klassen) PLEASE STOP THE CARNAGE AND SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT
PEOPLE - - URGE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TODAY - - GOVERNORS --
SENATORS - - THE PRESIDENT - - NHTSA AND THE DOT!!
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