Safe-D: Safety through Disruption

Month: December 2020

Increasing safety for electric cars and pedestrians

Michael Roan works in the Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Immersive Reality Lab. Photo provided by Michael Roan.

An interdisciplinary research group at Virginia Tech is using an award of $550,000 to create a virtual environment to test safety measures for the interaction between electric vehicles (EVs) and pedestrians. The award is an 18-month project funded by the Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) University Transportation Center.