A teenage girl from USA managed to erase the blind spots of her mother's car, using a web camera and a movie projector.
As every driver, and also every cyclist, knows, a car's blind spots can become extremely dangerous, as they obstruct its visibility. Although companies are working on various solutions of high technology To solve this problem, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania in the United States of America adopted a low-tech approach to create a smart solution.
Alaina Gassler decided to put a camera on the exterior of a car, the one on the windshield and the side window, which could record everything that was covered by the driver's eyes. She then used a projector to project live on the inside of the pole that the camera gave her. The image was in line with the natural landscape.
Check out the video below with the results:
The approach is surprisingly effective, with the pillars of the car almost transparent and the driver easily able to see the blind spots of the car, even when it was in motion. Gassler says she used a reflective fabric to make the image brighter and clearer and to reflect the image to the driver only.
For her efforts, Gassler won the first prize In the competition scienceand engineering of the Broadcom Masters for middle schools, which was accompanied by the amount of money of 25.000 dollars. By using fairly simple and affordable materials, her concept could eventually be adapted for commercial vehicles, as a standard feature security.
