Event

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday lunch seminar! This week Ke Lu from Chalmers University of Technology will present results from the SAFER pre-study SYNCOPE, an investigation into the medical conditions that cause driver impairment and potential sensing methods for detection. Also, Ines Heinig from SAFER will give an overview of the pre-study program.

SAFER pre-study: SYNCOPE
Speaker: Ke Lu, Chalmers University of Technology

Sudden sickness in drivers is a common cause of fatal crashes and accounts for about 10% of road traffic fatalities in Sweden. The risk could be mitigated with a driver monitor system capable of detecting critical medical conditions. Vehicle integrated and wearable sensor technologies for monitoring physiological and behavioral signs have been rapidly developed in recent years. Those technologies have the potential to detect critical medical conditions, even in an early phase. However, limited studies have approached this application. In order to fill the knowledge gap, in this project, workshops and literature review were conducted to investigate: 

1) What are the most relevant medical conditions that cause crashes and fatalities? 
2) Physiological and behavior signs before or during those conditions. 
3) Technologies to sensing those signs in vehicle. 
4) Challenges and approaches to move forward.
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All SAFER Thursday lunch seminars will be held at the SAFER office and online, via Microsoft Teams, exclusively for SAFER partners. Missing your invitation, please contact Mikael von Redlich.