Road Safe is the only Phone to Phone application available that notifies Car/Bus/Lorry drivers of other Road Safe users that use motorbikes/bicycles when they are at a radius of 20 meters. This application uses their real time using GPS to collect location information to know the whereabouts of Road Safe Users, when a notification is sent, it is sent in a form of sound (You will have the option of choosing what kind of notification you would like to receive).
Every year many people lose their lives on the road and some road users have more of a risk of getting into a road accident over than other road users, such as Motorcyclists and Cyclists, for example according to statistics Motorcyclists only make 1% of road users in the UK alone, yet Motorcyclists contribute nearly a fifth of total fatalities recorded from 1999 until today, and also in 2011 Cyclists and Motorcyclists accidents totalled to approximately 39,150 Accidents.
2 of the several main contributors to these accidents of Motorcyclists and Cyclists is the fact that car drivers lose concentration so they forget to use their driving observation skills to see if there is a motorcyclist/cyclist nearby them when leaving a junction, changing lanes and turning into junctions, so they crash into the motorcyclist/cyclists causing an accident.
So, we developed a Mobile application that would let car drivers be notified if there is a Motorcyclist/Cyclist nearby, reminding the car driver to use the proper observation skills to identify if there is a motorcyclist or cyclist nearby. We have made this application to be a Mobile Phone Application to Mobile Phone Application system. This application named Road Safe is based on an application software that allows Road safe users to communicate to each other of their measured location, So for an example of how Road Safe works; If a car driver and a Motorcyclist/Cyclist have Road Safe application downloaded on their phones and they are both driving on the road and they become 20 meter of radius distance from each other, the Road safe application downloaded on both of their phones will communicate to each other to notify the car driver that there is a Motorcyclist/Cyclist nearby. This is done by the application collecting information using the global positioning system (GPS) and the internet to identify other users of the application, once the application identifies that there is someone else who has the same application at a 20 meter radius, the users of the application will be notified.
Disclaimer:
"Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life."