Tokai Electronics announced on October 31st that it has launched the "Transportation Safety AI Lab," an AI project utilizing open data for transportation safety and traffic.
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The first project, "Zicolog" (accident log), which focuses on unnamed traffic accidents, uses AI technology to visualize the 30 traffic accident database (owned by the government and publicly available internationally) on a map, aiming to give people a sense of the reality of traffic accidents that cannot be seen in statistical tables.
While the service is currently offered free of charge, there are plans to monetize it once the AI models for accident prediction and other functions become more sophisticated. In the future, the company also aims to predict locations where drunk driving incidents are likely to occur.
Furthermore, ministries and agencies involved in transportation and safety, such as the Cabinet Office, the National Police Agency, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, publish so-called "traffic accident data" annually in white papers and other publications. This traffic accident-related data can be considered a shared resource of the nation. The government, citizens, businesses, manufacturers, etc., have a responsibility to make effective use of this big data for the sake of social justice, namely, "eliminating traffic accidents."
