Lytx Launches Enhanced Machine Vision and AI Risk Detection Technology to Help Safe Driving

According to foreign media reports, on February 24th local time, Lytx launched its annual User Group Conference and launched the next-generation technology aimed at solving the problem of distracted driving: enhanced machine vision and artificial intelligence-driven risk detection.

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In the United States, more than 1,000 people are injured and nine people die every day due to distracted driving. To help combat this widespread prevalence of driving behavior and other high-risk behaviors, Lytx has improved its machine vision and artificial intelligence (MV+AI) driven technology to understand high-risk behaviors such as texting while driving in near real-time. Lytx is a leading global provider of video telematics technology solutions, primarily serving commercial, public sector and field service fleets.

This cutting-edge technology acts like a "co-pilot" that constantly monitors the road and the driver, detects risky driving behavior, and triggers short video clips to understand what is really happening inside the car. Lytx's risk detection technology is part of its Driver Safety Suite product  , which now also includes four new MV+AI triggers: holding a handheld device, not wearing a seat belt, eating or drinking, and whether the driver is smoking. This technology can be combined with Lytx's Fleet Tracking Service to provide fleets with a complete integrated solution that allows fleets to optimize their vehicle technology with a single supplier.

Lytx's technology can identify more than 60 dangerous driving behaviors with over 95% accuracy. In 2019 alone, Lytx flagged more than 1.75 million minutes of video content, including dangerous driving behaviors such as using a mobile phone while driving, drivers not wearing seat belts, smoking and eating. Lytx is able to use its rich data to combine the precision of artificial intelligence (AI) with professional human insight.

New trigger provides superior insight into risky driving behavior

Lytx is in a unique position to develop accurate MV+AI-driven risk detection technology, having analyzed 120 billion miles of driving data and captured 100,000 dangerous driving events every day. This high-quality driving data is validated by professionally trained analysts, ensuring a high degree of accuracy in training Lytx’s algorithms to understand which data points are most important for building an accurate risk map. The program provides standardized, customized guidance to fleet managers.

In 2015, Lytx released MV+AI road scene triggers, including sliding parking, lane departure, following distance and critical distance. The new triggers are an expanded version of the triggers. Both sets of triggers monitor driving behavior patterns, select highlights of short videos, and use Lytx's artificial intelligence to accurately analyze and filter. Then, the verified video clips are automatically sent from the vehicle to the cloud via a 4G LTE cellular network connection, and customers can watch such video clips from any Internet-connected computer, smartphone or tablet through a Lytx account.

Fleet managers and drivers are then able to view these video clips using Lytx’s proprietary coaching process, which has been shown to help change driving behavior and reduce crashes by up to 50 percent and related claim costs by 80 percent.