This document discusses new innovations in traffic safety that aim to protect pedestrians, including advanced driver assistance systems, pedestrian detectors, and pressure-sensitive pedestrian switch pads. The advanced driver assistance system alerts drivers to imminent accidents with other vehicles, cyclists, or pedestrians. Pedestrian detectors help control traffic lights and detect pedestrians at crosswalks. Pressure-sensitive switch pads detect pedestrians crossing and activate call buttons to stop traffic until the pedestrians have crossed. These innovations enhance pedestrian safety while keeping vehicle traffic moving smoothly.

1. How About Some New Innovations in Traffic Safety

2. The number one concern for pedestrian’s in any country is
their traffic safety.

3. Sadly, United States transportation infrastructure is overly
concerned about accommodating cars more than its people.

4. And that’s detrimental.

5. People’s lives are at risk and statistics can attest to that.

6. Pedestrian fatalities and injuries are on the rise owing to car
crashes being at an all-time high.

7. To enhance people’s safety on the streets, cities are now
employing new innovations in traffic safety.

8. This post will examine innovations and technologies designed
to help save pedestrians lives and to enhance their safety.

9. Incidentally, these innovations represent just a few of the
many reliable technologies you can find in the traffic safety
market today.

10. Good thing the Internet has popularized some of these
innovations since most people are not aware of their
existence.

11. Traffic Safety and the Mobileye Advanced Driver Assistance
System

12. Mobileye is the producer of this driver-focused technology
that helps drivers avoid accidents.

13. What the advanced driver assistance system does is to warn
drivers of imminent accidents.

14. It alerts drivers when other cars, cyclists or pedestrians are
dangerously close.

15. It’s a user-friendly innovation that also alerts drivers when
they veer out of their lane.

16. It even reads traffic signs.

17. It’s an in-car traffic safety device that comes with a camera.

18. Mobileye relays recorded pictures on its platform [an Android
app] via Bluetooth.

19. So it must be mounted on the windshield for the camera to
get a good point of view of the pedestrians, cars or cyclists.

20. This technological innovation is optional accessory that’s
offered by car manufacturers.

21. Traffic Safety and Traficon’s Traffic Safety Pedestrian Detectors

22. Crosswalks are necessary since they help drivers identify
pedestrians where they should be [or are] crossing the street.

23. However, they are not 100% reliable.

24. It’s easy for a driver to get distracted and fail to notice the
flashing lights or signage that represents sidewalks.

25. Fortunately, Traficon, a Belgium-based manufacturer of
several traffic technologies, has crafted pedestrian detectors
that help control traffic lights and detect the presence of
pedestrians.

26. This innovation is optimized to keep pedestrian and vehicle
traffic moving in harmony.

27. Traffic Safety Tech Pedestrian Switch Pads

28. There’s no finer way to increase pedestrian’s safety on the
street than employing the use of pressure-sensitive
pedestrian switch pads.

29. This remarkable innovation detects pedestrians crossing and
activates a call button that by design controls traffic lights,
making vehicles stop.

30. Once the switch pads [made of a tactile material] are
vacated, traffic automatically starts moving.

31. It’s a laudable innovation that increases the traffic safety of
both pedestrians and vehicles on the street.

32. Technological advancements, in this era aptly christened the
instant information age, can help enhance pedestrian’s safety
on the street while keeping vehicle traffic flowing smoothly.

33. So, better traffic safety is achievable if the transportation
infrastructure can employ the use of these technologies to
lower mortality rates of drivers and pedestrians on the street.