The idea of developing this prototype came up in a drizzle winter morning, when Mario and I (David) rushed to our exam. The traffic was jammed that morning as people kept honking their way to work.Although drove snail-paced, there were couple of times when we almost smashed into the car in front of us because of the bad vision in the rain. The parking lot was packed when we arrived and it took us 5 minutes to find a spot squashed in between two huge Holden Commodores. Afraid of missing too much time for the exam, Mario span his wheel like a maniac trying to reverse his car in. He was so concentrating watching out for the two big horses beside his car that he wasn't aware of the car behind. Fortunately I had a glance and yelled out before his $30,000 Mazda plunged into the head of another car.
This probably sounds too familiar to stay in your memory by the end of the day. But can you recall how many times you have encountered such a situation in your driving career? Hundreds maybe? Scrambling our way to the exam room shaking our heads, we wished we could have some equipment that tells you the safe distance your car should stay away from another vehicle, one like what's in the vehicle which Sandra Bullock drives in Demolition Man.
It's not as fancy as it sounds. Having learnt the programming power of F1 Board and inspired by the example design such as speedo and other ultrasonic or infra-red devices, an ultrasonic distance detector is an easy solution that came up to our minds in the first place. Then it happened to be the time when we had to select our topic for DS207 and CO200 semester projects, involving the application of F1 Board, so that idea brought up on a rainy morning became our first choice.
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