Scooters have taken the city streets by storm, but also the sidewalks… To the great despair of pedestrians! Lime will launch, first in Paris, a system that will slow the vehicle when it detects that it is rolling on a sidewalk.
It’s the fear of pedestrians: coming face to face with a fast-moving scooter. These vehicles are supposed to ride on bike paths or on the road, but many users are not careful and rush on the sidewalks, disregarding everyone’s safety.
Artificial intelligence for security
Shared electric vehicle operator Lime may have found the solution. The company has developed Lime Vision, a computer vision technology embedded on the scooter and which, thanks to artificial intelligence, detects if it is traveling on a sidewalk. The system then gradually slows the speed and alerts the driver and surrounding pedestrians.
Quickly, the driver will not be able to do otherwise than return to the road or the cycle path if he wants to continue his journey! Lime Vision knows how to distinguish between curb and road using machine learning. The technology recognizes a wide variety of road and sidewalk surfaces, promises the operator.
Lime Vision is an in-house development, it was designed to integrate seamlessly with operator hardware and software. The feature will be gradually rolled out to all cities where Lime offers its shared scooter service, starting with Paris by the end of the year. Paris, which is also the first global market for the company.
And that’s not all: Lime Vision’s use cases go beyond detecting curbs, it can also extend to assessing parking accuracy. Lime is also working on a responsiveness test to tackle drunk driving, a tool that will be mandatory in France for any journey starting after 10 p.m. This is a tool which will be triggered before the vehicle is unlocked and which will allow the driver to self-assess his reaction speed.
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