Cognitive function test for drivers: how AI brings down costs and improves safety
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bspr Inc announced that it would start a cognitive function test service using AI with traffic injury insurance for companies primarily engaged in driving business, in cooperation with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd, from February 1, 2020.
A cognitive function test is a simulation test for persons over 75 years old received when renewing a driver’s license.
According to a research report published by the National Police Agency in March 2019, there is a causal relationship between cognitive function tests and safe driving, and it has been found that driving violations and accident rates are about three times higher for people with cognitive problems than for those without cognitive problems.
Companies primarily engaged in driving business would like to know the status of their cognitive functions in order to promote safe driving, but requests from specialist organizations were expensive and considered difficult to introduce.
The service has realized significant cost reductions by scoring using AI (image analysis) technology based on the data that bspr Inc has.
The receiver of this cognitive function test was equipped with the traffic injury insurance (compensation period: 1 year) of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd, and it became possible to carry out it at few hundreds yen per person.
In the questionnaire by bspr Inc for 50 companies, 80% of the test participants answered that “safety awareness has increased,” and the questionnaire assumes that it will also be useful for raising awareness of safe driving.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/01/27/ai-drive/