{"id":155072,"date":"2023-01-10T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/students-build-innovative-solution-to-stop-drivers-from-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:25:07","slug":"students-build-innovative-solution-to-stop-drivers-from-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/students-build-innovative-solution-to-stop-drivers-from-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel","title":{"rendered":"Students Build Innovative Solution to Stop Drivers From Falling Asleep at the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/students-build-innovative-solution-to-stop-drivers-from-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I n 2017, Andhra Pradesh witnessed two deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/nation\/current-affairs\/010317\/andhra-pradesh-bus-crash-kills-10-as-driver-sleeps-at-wheel.html\">bus accidents<\/a> after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. One was a tourist bus and the other a school bus carrying children and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>This news concerned Pradeep Varma (22), a student of Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. It left him wondering why there was no technology in place to prevent such accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter doing some research, I realised that while there is technology to detect external crashes and predict them, there aren\u2019t many prevalent ones to detect a driver falling asleep,\u201d says Pradeep, in an interview with <strong>The Better India<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I n 2017, Andhra Pradesh witnessed two deadly bus accidents after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. One was a tourist bus and the other a school bus carrying children and teachers. This news concerned Pradeep Varma (22), a student of Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. It left him wondering why there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}