Week 4

Our initial presentation was due on the Friday of week 4 and we still had not thought of a viable idea for our technology project and we were at square one again however we suddenly remembered how safety is still a major issue and there are still a lot of fatalities due to people being careless about their seat belt.

We decided to dig up some statistics, according to CDC.gov (2011), 

• Adults age 18-34 are less likely to wear seat belts than adults 35 or older. (CDC, 2010, unpublished data).
• Men are 10% less likely to wear seat belts than women. (CDC, 2010, unpublished data).
• Adults who live in rural areas are 10% less likely to wear seat belts (78% use) than adults who live in urban and suburban areas (87% use). (CDC, 2010, unpublished data).
• Seat belt use is lower in states with secondary enforcement seat belt laws or no seat belt laws (79%) compared to states with primary enforcement laws (88%).
• Seat belts reduce serious crash-related injuries and deaths by about 50%.

We were also able to find out that wearing a seat belt reduces your chance of death or serious injury by 40%, (Ministry of Transport NZ, 2014). 

So we thought of a way of somewhat forcing people to wear a seat belt (better safe than sorry right?). What if we research a system in which the car will lose throttle completely once the vehicle goes over a set speed without wearing their system. Say hypothetically 20 kph, to allow for moving the car around in parking lots and not accounting when reversing as the law in many country states that you are not legally required to wear a seat belt when reversing a vehicle. 

There is still a chance that people can put the seatbelt behind their back when sitting on the seat and buckling it to avoid the speed restrictions however our motto is to not aimed to save stupid and/ignorant people who want to avoid wearing seat belt at all cost (death or serious injury included), it is aimed to save the careless and people who sometimes simply forget to wear the seat belt.