Alaina Gassler is an 8th Grader Who Designed a Way to Help Reduce Car Crashes

I always love seeing some of the latest ideas in the world of science and technology. Well, a few weeks ago, Alaina Gassler unveiled her project to help eliminate blind spots in cars for safer driving. The idea is a rather simple one, a webcam has its video projected onto a screen covering the structural pillars of a car. See, simple. However, this use is genius, especially if it can, in fact, help reduce the number of car collisions.

To make things even more impressive is that Gassler is an eighth-grader and this idea won her 25,000 at the Broadcom MASTERS competition in October. You can check out footage from Gassler’s prototype and a brief interview with her below. I think it’d be great if we could find a way to make this a more mainstream reality.

Via: Nerdist

This is Alaina Gassler's Science and Engineering Fair project in 2019. She completed this as an 8th grader at Avon Grove Charter School in West Grove, PA. Abstract: Many car accidents are caused by drivers not being able to see hazards due to blind spots.

Uploaded by SocietyforScience on 2019-10-30.

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