News Honda uses in-vehicle safety technology for road repairs…marking

A monitoring system that evaluates road conditions based on in-vehicle technology developed by the Honda Research Institute

Honda's U.S. division announced on December 14 that Honda Research Institute, a research and development subsidiary in the U.S., has developed a monitoring system that evaluates road surface conditions for road operators. announced that there is The Honda Research Institute is developing a road condition monitoring system for in-vehicle devices to evaluate road conditions and detect possible hazards. With this road condition monitoring system, Honda will help road operators monitor lane marking conditions more frequently, efficiently and cost-effectively. Honda Research Institute conducted a pilot program in Ohio. It is evaluating a real-time road condition information collection system that can be shared with road operators using GPS and sensors such as cameras. Honda is working with the Ohio Department of Transportation to begin providing road condition data from Honda vehicles used as part of a pilot program in early 2022 to improve the efficiency of Ohio's road maintenance operations. I plan to. When monitoring lane-marked road conditions, the system visually classifies lanes on the left and right sides of the vehicle using four color codes: green, yellow, gray and red. Green and yellow indicate ideal or good lane markings. Gray if there is no lane marking, red if the lane marking needs to be repaired. Information such as photos, videos, and longitude and latitude are captured in the vehicle, anonymized, and streamed to a secure platform for analysis. Road operators can access the platform to identify areas of poor lane conditions and their severity, as well as capture photos and video of the scene.

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