PLAN TEST OF NEW SYSTEM TO AID STRANDED DRIVERS

A SYSTEM IS BEING DEVELOPED TO ENABLE PASSING MOTORISTS TO SUMMON AID FOR A DRIVER IN DISTRESS WITHOUT GETTING OUT OF THEIR CARS OR STOPPING. THE SYSTEM, KNOWN AS FLASH (FLASH LIGHTS AND SEND HELP), DEPENDS ON COOPERATING MOTORISTS FLASHING THEIR HEADLIGHTS AT ELECTRONIC DETECTION UNITS WHEN THEY SEE A DRIVER WHO NEEDS HELP. THE UNITS ACTIVATED BY THE FLASHING WILL BE LINKED BY TELEPHONE LINES TO A HIGHWAY PATROL HEADQUATERS WHICH WILL DISPATCH ASSISTANCE. EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN FLORIDA WITH DETECTION UNITS INSTALLED AT TWENTY-TWO STATIONS ALONG A 50-MILE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY. ACTUAL COUNTS OF STRANDED VEHICLES WILL BE MADE TO ASCERTAIN WHAT PERCENTAGES REPORTED THROUGH FLASH.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Department of Transportation News, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1968-6-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Detectors; Disasters and emergency operations; Distress; Drivers; Electronic equipment; Experiments; Flashing; Hazards and emergency operations; Headlamps; Motor vehicles; Passing; Stopping
• Uncontrolled Terms: Stopped vehicles
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic devices
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225228
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: Fhwa-180
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 15 1994 12:00AM