Wrong-way drivers, obstacles on the road, or ambulances nearing at full speed…none of these traffic hazards will be an issue anymore with Safety Priority Services (SPS). 🚨
SPS is an innovative warning system that is currently being developed by six different manufacturers and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, says NU.nl.
This stunning tech innovation can be built into cars and navigation systems to help warn drivers about traffic hazards ahead! The best part? The Dutch will get it first. 😎
How will it work?
At the moment, manufacturers ANWB, Be-Mobile, Hyundai, Inrix, Kia, and TomTom are looking to develop SPS — and integrate it into their car and navigation systems.
SPS aims to warn users about potentially dangerous situations ranging from wrong-way drivers to accidents or obstacles blocking the road. However, other potential traffic disruptions such as hail storms or approaching ambulance and police cars are also taken into account.
The idea is that the six manufacturers as well as its users will feed the SPS with information about what’s happening on the road.
Still in the early stages
The SPS is still in development and is not expected to hit the international market before 2025. At the moment, test runs are only being made in the Netherlands.
The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure says that the SPS trials are a way of preparing for new EU-wide traffic and safety legislation that’ll come into effect in 2025.
Would you use a warning system such as SPS? Tell us in the comments below!
It is great that these companies are developing such tool. However this is literally what the app ‘Waze’ offers for quite some years already..
How is this new? It’s been functional on Flitsmeister for a few years…
I think I already do use this… at least, I swap between Waze, Google Maps, and a Dutch app called “Flitsmeister” and while using the latter it automatically warns me the moment the speed limit is reduced (Dutch roads have electronically controlled speed and lane signs on many freeways) and also pops a full screen alert when it detects (somehow…) emergency services vehicles driving on my route with lights and sirens, even showing where they are on a map in some cases!
It sounds like what Waze already does. Of course in countries where it is actually used.
Countries like Romania and many others, already have this technology, just cheaper and better, but not sovereign.
All in all, it is good that more alternatives pop up, as it increases pressure on existing solutions, especially in the privacy domain.
It’s not a new technology though and many countries, even those less developed than the Netherlands, already have it.
Just to give an example. I always know that there is an accident or some sort of hazard, or police ahead.
We already know all these things thanks to the flitsmeister app, the app does everything you mentioned in your report maybe except for wrong way drivers, without having something built into our cars that tracks our moves, which obviously we don’t want, bc we’re Dutch
deze service wordt al een aantal jaren geboden door Flitsmeister. Het werkt daar perfect, een is zeker een veiligheid bevorderende toevoeging. Kan het zonder twijfel aanbevelen. Meerdere keren vroegtijdig een melding ontvangen wat helpt om tijdig de weg vrij te maken.
Flitsmeister has this