Milestone as Kenyan students develop system to curb head-on collision road accidents

John Githae and Alex Maise, both 22, from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology have developed a Collision Detention System that detects the possible crash of two vehicles at a distance of 100 metres.

“The system is currently set with a limit to detect an obstacle or a forthcoming vehicle in a range of 100 metres and the relative speed is 50km/hour. The system will detect the possibility of collision and automatically apply brakes to stop the vehicle. This is done through a distance sensor that is connected to a micro controller, which computes the relative speed between a vehicle and an obstacle. The sensor is placed in front of the car,” Mr Githae tells Hashtag.