Aware

Live dual monitoring - circles overlay indicate driving mistakes

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Live monitoring - yellow leds indicate that a driving mistake was detected

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connect home history tracing history route adk connect adk connected adk spike detected adk score

Simple sequence diagram that explains the core functionality of Aware

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This is the physical widget that sits in your car.
This screen indicates a tracking state - Green leds indicate that you are driving with almost no errors. Good for you!

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Your score will soon be visible on screen

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Red leds are not your friends, they indicate lots of driving mistakes. The fading red leds below the big "YOU" indicate that not long ago the driver made a mistake (and a big one)

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This is the history tracking screen.
It shows each driving mistake using a three-level-color transparent circles.
Clicking on each circle gives you an immediate video feedback of what happened during that time.

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This is a list of all your previous drives

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This is the main screen. It summaries your score, rank, badges, etc.

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This is the connect to the physical widget screen

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Connecting to mobile device

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The most significant way to learn is from your own mistakes. One way to do that is through increased awareness.

I argue that if people were more aware to their mistakes they would learn more from each experience and decrease their chances of repeating the same mistake.

That is why I created Aware, a simple road monitoring system that tracks abnormal accelerations while driving. Each abnormality has a severity type that corresponds to a visual light feedback the driver receives while performing each violation. After the drive ends, the route is saved so that the driver could compare his or her history routes for further analysis. The system supports multiple drivers by uniquely identifying each through his or her cellular phone. As an incentive, the driver can share achievements in different social medias.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in the U.S. in 2010. Moreover, according to JATO Dynamics, an automotive data provider, the U.S. light vehicle market emits on average 255.6 g/km of CO2. Almost twice as polluting as Europe and Japan.

I strongly believe that through increased awareness of our driving behavior we can lower the number of car accidents on the road and learn how to efficiently consume fuel through better understanding of what consumes more and less. The latter has strong affiliation on the amount of air pollution caused by cars nowadays and may very much decrease pollution and help save our planet.

Mobile and Hardware