BlindSpot Detector

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Blind-Spot Detector

• Mike Cutri
• Ben Hirsh
• Kaiel Kim
• Maryann Savulich
• Joe Schwartz
• Jun Wang

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Car Accidents (the numbers)

• Cost more than 230 billion dollars
• 2.9 million people injured
• 42,636 people killed, 115 people a day, 1 death
  every 13 minutes
• 28.9 of all crashes are from the side or angle
• 16.1 of all crashes involve fixed objects

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What is the improvement?

• ELIMINATE BLINDSPOT
• Not seen by the driver
• Cars not seen while driving, parking lots,
  animals, getting out of parking spaces
• Electromagnetic EPS sensors located on the sides
  in the rear part of the car connected to a
  central unit located inside the car
• Provide the driver with a high pitched beeping
  noise that will increase in loudness and in
  frequency as object approaches the car range is
  up to 10 yards

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More about the Improvement

• Can work in conjunction with the already
  available front and rear sensors
• Mostly limited to only be available in luxury
  cars
• Can be bought separately as an add-on to the car
  and installed manually
• Connected to main central unit and will appear on
  a section of the front lcd screen of the vehicle

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Car accident

• There were 6,181,000 accidents in 2004
• 6,420,000 auto accidents in the US in 2005
• There are 16,934 accidents reported to the police
  each day in United States

• 89,000 people died in car accident related deaths
  in China in 2007
• 200 to 300 people die in car accident each day in
  China

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Pictures
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What is our project

• Have a center unit
• Have the three sensors
• One for back and two for sides
• When the car get so close to you the sensor will
  have the sound or light to warn you
• It is will help to prevent the accident

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Example
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Automobile Blind Spots

• Yellow highlights indicate field of vision

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Core Components

• Control box (processing unit)
• Interior console (includes display/speaker)
• Electromagnetic sensors

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How it would function
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Motion sensor cost components

• Plastic Body
• Ultrasound emitting housing
• Labor Costs
• Wiring Costs

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Retail Motion Sensors

• Analysis of similar style Motion detectors
• Prices ranged from 50 through 150.
• Average of 10 similar products were priced at
  124.21

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Total Estimated Costs

• Plastic housing labor to create body
  approximately 50
• Labor Costs for installation
• average hourly salary 20/hr.
• Ultrasound housing
• approximately 10
• Wiring Costs
• approximately 25

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Value of the product

• The value of the product is dependent on many
  factors
• Underlying total cost of product As stated in
  previous slide it would take us around 82 to
  manufacture
• Competition in market the market for blind spot
  sensors is unexplored, the closed market is rear
  sensing which averages 125 for those sensors

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• Intended market
• our intended market is the luxury car market,
  which allows us to make our price higher
• The value of the blind spot detector is 375

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Non-Monetary Value

• Cannot be quantified
• Added Non-Monetary Value
• Safety
• Life
• Reduced Stress
• Comfort Zone

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Creative Techniques

• Brainstorming
• Green Hat/ Creative Thinking
• Organization Techniques
• Structure groups thinking
• Thinking hats
• White
• Red
• Yellow
• Black

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Information Situation Questionnaire

• Information about the system and its environment.
• Car
• Transportation
• Wheels, motor, steering, windows, plastic, metal,
  brakes, locks, transmission, signals, lights, gas
  tank, axel, alternator, exhaust system, battery,
  catalytic converter
• Pressing the gas pedal causes gas to flow and
  steering allows the driver to control the
  movement of the car.
• Super Systems Roads, Highways
• Other Environments Garage, Parking Lots,
  Assembly Line

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ISQ

• 2. Available Resources
• Engineering
• Use existing systems mirrors, turn signals, back
  up sensors
• Experts in the field
• Information about the problem
• Eliminate drivers blind spots
• The structure of the car and limitations of
  mirrors
• None that we know of
• Drivers reflexes, differences in each drivers
  visual limitations

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ISQ

• Changing the System
• The structure of the car, mirrors, adding sensors
• Cost (luxury vehicles), width of the car,
  additions that will distract other drivers on the
  road.
• Criteria for Selecting Concepts
• Transportation, limitations of technology
• Moderately priced or luxury cars
• Should be done in time for new line/ year
• Not too inventive because applying it to many
  cars will increase road safety

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ISQ

• History of attempted solutions to the
  problem
• Make use of technology from parking/ backup
  technology
• Any vehicle including motorcycles, buses, and
  even airplanes

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Sources

• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95
  /Blindspot_three_cars_illus.svg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae
  /Blind_spot.JPG
• http//www.global-b2b-network.com/direct/dbimage/5
  0360627/Car_Parking_Sensor.jpg