Demo: Distracted Driving Detection

Rear-end collisions, which account for over 33% of crashes, are the most frequent type of accidents in the USA. According to reports on road safety, almost all rear-end collisions are due to the distracted driving behavior of other nearby drivers. Ego vehicles should detect such deviated driving behaviors on other cars and warn their drivers to avoid rear-end crashes. In this paper, we demonstrate such a distracted driving detection system through field trials with multiple test vehicles. The ego vehicle observes the distance to preceding and following vehicles and detects distracted driving behavior on follower vehicles. A warning is generated whenever the follower vehicle exhibits distracted driving behavior.