{"id":940300,"date":"2025-06-21T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940300"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:18:08","slug":"ai-can-help-make-our-roads-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/ai-can-help-make-our-roads-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can help make our roads safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a full-blown road safety emergency in India. In 2023, nearly 1.73 lakh lives were lost in road accidents. That\u2019s 474 people a day, or roughly one in every three minutes. Total accidents crossed 4.8 lakh last year, 4.2% more than in 2023. Two-wheeler riders, especially those without helmets, made up around 44% of the victims, while pedestrians accounted for nearly one-fifth. And the biggest killer was speed. Overspeeding led to over two-thirds of all fatalities. It is a wake-up call. Emerging technologies can help arrest this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a full-blown road safety emergency in India. In 2023, nearly 1.73 lakh lives were lost in road accidents. That\u2019s 474 people a day, or roughly one in every three minutes. Total accidents crossed 4.8 lakh last year, 4.2% more than in 2023. Two-wheeler riders, especially those without helmets, made up around 44% of the victims, while pedestrians accounted for nearly one-fifth. And the biggest killer was speed. Overspeeding led to over two-thirds of all fatalities. It is a wake-up call. Emerging technologies can help arrest this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}