COLLISION PREVENTION IN AUTOMOBILE

i propose to design a device which could be used by automobiles in the highway for the purpose of collision prevention. The main objective of this project is to avoid collisions between vehicles which results in losses in massive proportions to life and economy. We will be specifically dealing with accidents caused when a multitude of vehicles travelling in a linear manner collide. Such collisions do not terminate with damage to one or two vehicles, rather, an array of cars go smashing into one another. So, we intend to design ultrasonic sensors (transceivers) both at the front and rear of a vehicle in order to detect the range of another vehicle which is in its immediate vicinity. The data from the transceivers along with the velocity of the vehicle and an emergency input from the driver of each vehicle could be used to determine the status of the vehicle. This status, if found alarming will be transmitted backwards to the vehicle immediately behind it. The vehicle which receives this “alert” code, will take steps to slow down and also pass on the same code to the vehicle behind it, and so on the code gets transmitted to all vehicles behind the troubled car which are in range of the ultrasonic transceivers