Admittedly, X2Safe does not sound like a self-explanatory solution. But the system is as logical as it is smart. Pardon: Intelligent is the word of the hour. ZF has developed an intelligent algorithm for X2Safe that will revolutionize traffic safety. As a system provider, ZF simply sees not just a connection between motorists, but between all road users and networks them via a cloud. In this way, collisions should be avoided as they arise, which would be another step towards autonomous driving.
Not only the motorist wins with X2Safe
What unites motorists, pedestrians and cyclists? Right: Most people today are equipped with a smartphone. This has taken ZF into its head and developed an exciting system that could sustainably increase traffic safety: the X2Safety algorithm. Motorists, passers-by and cyclists are warned of collision at an early stage, as the cloud-based algorithm connects them all together.
X2Safe communicates with vehicles, smartphones and smartwatches of all road users and, if necessary, can warn them of a crash in good time. Autonomous or semi-autonomous systems initiate appropriate protection measures and can not only mitigate an accident, but in the best case even avoid it completely. The system can therefore be used as a basis for Car-to-X, X-to-Car or even X-to-X. After all, it is a technology that can be implemented quickly. And the more participants are connected, the more effectively accidents can be avoided.
Recognize the accident before it even happens
In this way, the smartphone can become one of the biggest security gains from one of the biggest road traffic hazards. It is often the case that one constantly looks at the screen of the telephone and is not in the traffic in the matter. Due to the constant online presence, however, X2Safe allows movement data to be played into the cloud, from which the algorithm calculates whether there is a risk of a collision with a vehicle or a pedestrian. If you cross a red traffic light as a pedestrian, the smartphone reports this circumstance to the cloud in real time. The surrounding road users and their assistance systems are then warned or placed in readiness, so that an accident may be prevented. Vehicles warn about their integrated infotainment systems, while other participants are informed directly via smartphone or smartwatch.
I'm watching you ...
A clever system - no doubt. The only question is when we will all be checked to such an extent that you will no longer dare to turn red at the traffic lights, because otherwise a fine would flutter into the house immediately. When we no longer drive two kilometers an hour too fast because our assistance system reports directly to the bus money office. When we just follow the crowd without character, in gray overalls, with uniform hairstyles. Big brother and so ...