AssistWare awarded $3M contract to develop crash avoidance technologies

AssistWare Technology has been awarded a $3M contract by the US Department of Transportation as part of a $25M program to test and develop technologies to help drivers avoid crashes.

AssistWare, along with partners The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Eaton Corp., Visteon Corp., Honda R&D Americas Inc., Battelle Memorial Institute and the Michigan Department of Transportation, will develop, deploy, and test a new integrated crash warning system on a fleet of passenger cars and heavy-duty commercial trucks.

In addition to supplying lane departure warning technology, AssistWare will be supplementing radar-based forward collision warning with image data.  

“Both lane departure and forward collision warning systems have been proven to reduce accidents and save lives,” said AssistWare Technology CEO Mike Formica. “It is a natural evolution to merge these systems to maximize the safety benefit. This combined system will offer improved warning accuracy against a greater variety of conditions while also reducing the number of false alarms.”

“Our experience with autonomous vehicle control, particularly merging vision with other systems such as GPS, radar and data recording makes AssistWare uniquely qualified to execute this program,” added AssistWare founder and CTO Dean Pomerleau, a recognized world leader in intelligent vehicle systems.

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