Safe- Inlet is a patented device which actively will alert driver and occupants of the vehicle travelling in the wrong way

1. SAFE INLET
The device for road security
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2. L’inserimento contromanoPreliminary considerations
• Millions of people of different culture, age, gender, every day get in
their car and drive for several kilometers to reach their destinations
• Becoming a habit, driving is not anymore an action that according to
people requires any daily particular mental concentration
• Driving is a habit for elderly people and people with a difficult
physiological condition as well
• Inappropriate signs become almost non-existent in case of foggy
weather conditions.

3. Troppe distrazioni
Not only
cell
phones…
Too many distractions
• Mobile phones, radio, GPS devices, cigarettes,
newspapers and even laptops
• Too many elements influence our
concentrations at driving
•Distraction on the road is nowadays considered
normal, as it is human and impossible to
foreseen...
• … but some distractions may have tragic
consequences

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What happens if, for
a small distraction, a
driver takes the
highway in the wrong
direction?

5. L’inserimento contromanoWrong-way accidents
• Travelling on the wrong side of a road is a a very serious
phenomenon and not that uncommon as we may
believe.
• Wrong way accidents are in continuos growth and
cause each year a remarkable number of fatalities on
the roads and highways.

7. L’inserimento contromanoA global phenomenon
In Germany each year, around 1,700
incidents of wrong-way drivers are
reported in traffic information
broadcasts(SourceUNICE_http://www.unece.org/file
admin/DAM/trans/doc/2012/wp1/NatDev-2012_road-
safety-programme-2011.pdf)
Wrong-way accidents are the
cause of about 350 fatalities
each year throughout the
United States(Source: National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA)

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The
social
costs
Italy spends from 24 up to 31 billion
Euro each year, amount to around
1,5 - 2 percentage points of GDP
This number is obtained by cross-referencing the data from Ania,
Ministry of Transport, Irpet e ACI
The total is the sum of the loss of productivity costs, psychological
damages, financial losses, administrative costs and basic health care
costs (treatment costs at the hospital).

9. I costi
sociali
Which action has been taken
to avoid these fatalities?

10. L’inserimento contromanoAwareness Campaigns
• In the past years several information campaigns have been carried
out . The sigs in highway and freeways have been increased
• In some cases in USA several kind of vertical and horizontal
signalization has been added to the existing one
• This doesn’t look like being enough as the trend is not changing. The
problem is that the signs have no power against a distracted driver
or a psychological altered mind.
• But this is not enough..

11. L’inserimento contromanoLight signals
• In the efforts to find innovative solutions, some kind of
photo – electric devices have been realized and introduced in some
countries
• However, signs have no power against a distracted driver or a
psychological altered mind.
• “This measure is ineffective“ says Gianantonio Scramuzza, researcher at
UPI(Swiss injury prevention office- www.upi.ch).
• Several studies have shown that such electronic devices are totally
ineffective against wrong interpretations. (Source: ASAPS www.asaps.it)

12. L’inserimento contromanoRadar detection system
• Now tested in Switzerland.
• The system, as for the system with surveillance cameras,
sends out a signal of a situation which is already happening.
• This method is only working on the effect and it is not
actively preventive

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The idea:
SAFE INLET

14. L’inserimento contromanoSAFE INLET: what it is
Safe- Inlet is a patented
device which actively will
alert driver and occupants
of the vehicle travelling in
the wrong way

15. L’inserimento contromanoWhere is installed
SAFE INLET is installed on the road surface at the end and across all the exit lanes of each
highway and parking area; it is not perceived at all by vehicles travelling in the correct way

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If it is traversed by a vehicle travelling in the correct way, the system has a
neutral behavior, it doesn’t represent a bump for the vehicle and it is not
perceived at all by the driver and the other occupants.
In case of wrong entering, the system act as a bump giving a shock to the
vehicle which will alert all its occupants as an unmistakable signal telling
that they are doing something wrong.
A simple mechanism
ENTERING IN THE CORRECT WAY
ENTERING IN THE WRONG WAY

17. L’inserimento contromanoPatents
• At the moment the system has got 2
patents: one is in a PCT phase patent ant
the other is in the Italian national phase.
The Patenting phase is a work in progress.
• PCT International
application number:
WO2014/135476 A1

18. L’inserimento contromanoResearch and Development
• The project has been shown and analyzed by an important
Italian University, which confirmed its feasibility.
• The first prototype have been built and tested on the road
• Now the next step is the realization of the executive project
of the two patents.

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The potential

20. GERMANY 4.534
ITALY 2.056
FRANCE 3.154
BELGIUM 928
• The numbers are based on the
analysis of the highway
networks (rounded down
number of highway
entrance/exit lanes) for the
countries chosen
• This is taking only in
considerations the highways and
not every other possible
application which might be
helpful (roundabouts, one-ways
in urban center main roads…)
•Therefore we assume that the
number of possible installations
could be much higherNETHERLANDS 1828
TOTAL 12.500 INSTALLATIONS

21. L’inserimento contromanoBusiness Plan
• In the current phase of the project the materials and processes
needed to manufacture the product are not yet determined ,
therefore the total costs can not be calculated with precision .
• We have put in place a well-grounded Businnes Plan, together with
the Economic and Financial prospect, based on the experience in
the construction of the first prototypes.
• We refer to the consultation of B.P. the economic and profit
considerations.

22. L’inserimento contromanoScenery 1
Done
Work in progress
Target
Legend
Patent Sale
Royalties
Research and
Development
Idea and Patent
process

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24. L’inserimento contromanoEndorsements
• Several private companies have shown interest for the project, but for confidentiality
reasons we don’t reveal their names.
• Volvo AB, we received a remarkable endorsement by the Safety Director of Volvo AB Global
Peter Kronberg.
•Fondazione Ania , has showed appreciation of the project through Dott. Vedovi, expert of
road security and risk management.
• Il Centauro, the official magazine of ASAPS association, has recently published an article :
http://www.asaps.it/49237-
_contromano__la_soluzione_oggi_esiste_e_si_chiama_safe_inlet_efficace_semplice_e.html
•AIPCR (world road association), has published and commented our article about Safe Inlet :
http://www.aipcr.it/web/cultura/tecnologie-stradali/item/593-tecnologie-mai-piu-contromano
•Motori online, online magazine linket to QN (Il Giorno,La Nazione, il Resto del Carlino),has
written an article about our device: http://www.motorionline.com/2015/02/13/safe-inlet-una-soluzione-per-
impedire-di-viaggiare-contromano/

25. We strongly believe in this
project and its wide spread
as it will represent a
considerable and rather
economical help to
drastically decrease the
numbers of accidents which
are at the moment out of
control.
We have some way to go.
However the huge number of
endorsements and positive
comments received during the
last few months have
strengthened our enthusiasm
for the future development of
the project.
To summarize

26. L’inserimento contromanoConclusioni
Questions and conclusions