Can AI Prevent Car Accidents? How Smart Cars See What We Don’t

A Smarter Future Behind the Wheel
In the world, the deaths of over 1.3 million people in road accidents are witnessed every year, most of which are due to human error. Distraction, fatigue, and inappropriate decision-making have been at the top of the crash reports. Imagine that autos were smarter than people. This scenario is no longer an impossible prospect, courtesy of artificial intelligence (AI), which is now possible—vehicles capable of sensing, predicting, and reacting to danger well in advance of...