The enormous impact that road fatalities have in our society has attracted the attention ofvarious official entities and policy makers to this issue. In particular, for more than 15 yearsthe European Commission took care about road crashes, especially in relation to the eSafetystrategic objective: the reduction of all road accidents by 50% by the year 2010 (1). Amongmotor vehicle accidents, which represents second most frequent cause of death for people5-29 years old (2), motorcyclists are worldwide among the most vulnerable road users.Motorcycle and moped fatalities account for 17,7% of the total number of road accidentfatalities in Europe. Therefore, compared to a passenger vehicle occupant, a motorcycle rideris 26 times more likely to die in a crash, based on vehicle miles travelled (3). It’s clear that thesocial impact of this phenomenon is dramatically negative from the European Communitypoint of view. This paper will present the SAFERIDER (Advanced telematics for enhancingthe safety and comfort of motorcycle riders) project outline, focusing on the functionalitydeveloped and the activity done so far. In details, the paper will show the architecturedeveloped for the simulator and demonstrators testing, the HW components implemented andthe HWs integration of the innovative vehicle demonstrators. Waiting for the projectconclusion expected by November 2010, the draft results seem to be very interesting forchallenging objectives of the European Community, in relation with the motorcycleundiscovered domain.
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