Why?
Wet weather responsible for
30 % accidents
Wet weather conditions are responsible for 30 % of road accidents, of which 70% happen due to wet weather conditions and remaining due to other weather conditions like snow, icy conditions and snow
Road accidents claims
1.25 million deaths
Globally, road accidents claim 1.25 million lives every year. Even though the technology is continually evolving such as autonomous systems to eliminate human errors but still phenomenon like aquaplaning severely compromises the traction and is responsible for about 10% of the global accidents. This will continue to stay until something is done.
Road accidents also results in
50 million injuries
Globally, road accidents result in 50 million injuries. Decades of improvement in active and passive safety system have made our cars safer and at the same time faster. Also, the ever increasing density of cars per kilometer of road is contributing to this number and its likely to grow in coming years.
Global financial liability
$ 1.8 trillion
The annual global cost of damage due to the accidents is increasing rapidly and currently stands at $1.8 trillion. This directly results in increased cost of ownership.
Technology mapping
A new dimension in active safety systems
Deviation from Normal driving
Deviation
Technologies like lane departure assist, haptic steering, several ADAS features assists driver in correcting the deviation from normal driving
Emergency and critical situation
Hazard
Technologies like emergency braking, ABS, traction control etc. assists driver during emergency and critical situation
Crash unavoidable
Manipulate
These type of technologies will not only act on vehicle dynamics but also on external conditions. RDTS is one such technology that can improve the compromised traction
Post Crash
Minimize
Post crash injuries are minimized by airbags, seatbelts, collapsible frames etc.
Traction is fundamental for all mobility systems to operate. Lack thereof is a major problem.
- Weather conditions drastically affect the road traction and RDTS Technologies is working on a solution which manipulates traction by eliminating the surface contamination.
- All the active safety or traction control systems are limited to solutions within vehicle dynamics and thus have limited ability on reduced friction surface.
- As global warming is increasing the average rainfall the percentage share of weather related incidents is likely going to increase, highlighting the current need and importance of our solution.
- Moreover, the number of cars per unit of road surface is increasing rapidly, which will further increase the number of accidents globally.
- Designed to make the transport system safer, future mobility systems such as autonomous cars are equally vulnerable to weather related accidents. As such, no current line of research is being carried out aiming to fix or contain the problem of reduced surface friction.