Robotics for Safety
We are a group of college and high-school students who have a mission to bring Robotics-related technologies to improve road safety in Thailand.
Our first focus is to create an affordable device to address blind-spot-related motorcycle accidents, a major cause of fatal crashes for 30 million motorcyclists in Thailand (and hundreds of millions more in other developing countries like China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam).
1. Motorcycles account for 74% of road fatalities in Thailand, with 1–2 deaths every hour.
2. Blind-spot crashes are a leading cause, as Thai motorcyclists are forced to drive on the lane edges instead of occupying full lanes like in developed countries.
3. Most motorcyclists are low-income family breadwinners, and accidents often trigger devastating economic and social consequences.
We began this project last year, starting with riders/drivers pain points interviews. We later saught mentorship from OpenDream, a Thai Social Venture incubator to gain road safety knowledge and worked with Tae-Jai, a social venture crowdfunding platform to secure funding. Over the next 2-3 years, we plan to develop three prototypes, starting with the simplest and most affordable version (see more details of the prototype version of “RiderGuard” at this link).
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