Front Stop Lamps for a Safer Traffic
Engineering Objective: The paper deals with an innovative idea of placing the stop lamps not only in the rear of the vehicle as usual but in the front of it too. By doing this the traffic safety would increase significantly since everyone involved on it w
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Abstract Engineering Objective: The paper deals with an innovative idea of placing the stop lamps not only in the rear of the vehicle as usual but in the front of it too. By doing this the traffic safety would increase significantly since everyone involved on it would know that the driver is stopping the vehicle. Especially the pedestrians would benefit of these front brake lights when they are crossing the street. The stop lamps may be placed near to the headlights but they would be difficult to be observed during the night. Thus, a better solution is placing them separately as some turn signals. What does the paper offer that is new in the field in comparison to other works of the author: The paper offers an idea completely new in the automotive filed and it is also new comparing to other works of the author. Conclusion: The innovative idea of placing the stop lamps in the front of the vehicle would offer a safer traffic not only for pedestrians but also for all involved in the traffic. Keywords Front stop lamps
Traffic safety
1 Introduction There are always solutions to increase the traffic safety. This paper proposes one of them by placing the stop lamps in the front of the vehicle (Fig. 2) as these brake lights are placed in the rear (Fig. 1).
F2012-F03-006 O. Antonescu (&) Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
SAE-China and FISITA (eds.), Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 197, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33805-2_25, Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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Fig. 1 Classic front lighting
Fig. 2 Front lighting with stop lamps
Being important at least as the turn signals, the stop lamps must be visible. A solution is placing them separately from the headlights as some turn signals. As it can be seen in Fig. 2 the front brake lights can be placed in the bumper even if they are not so protected in the case of the front crashing. The low price of them would compensate this disadvantage.
2 A Safer Traffic Let’s suppose that we are pedestrians and we are crossing the street on a zebra and the traffic light is green, of course for us. In the same time a vehicle approaches to the pedestrian crossing, driving straight to us with slow speed and making the impression that it is braking. Now, how do we know the intention of the driver? How can we be sure that the driver is actually stopping the vehicle? Simply,
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Fig. 3 Innovative brake lighting
Fig. 4 Crossing a street
by placing two brake lights in the front of the vehicle as it is shown in Fig. 3. Only in this way we will be sure that the driver is pushing the brake pedal. Let’s now reconsider the situation but with a car equipped with these innovative front stop lamps (Fig. 4). In this case the pedestrian knows for sure that the driver is braking the car. We do not know how much the driver pushes the brake pedal but we know how long it takes. Anyway the pedestrian is more confident in crossing the street and so the
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