A Study on the Traffic Light Identification and Guidance System for the Elderly Drivers

Recently, as the aging of society has progressed rapidly, the number of elderly drivers has increased dramatically. As the elderly people have lower physical and cognitive abilities compared to the general public, the increase and the damage of the traffic accident rate are becoming a social problem. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the identification and guidance system of traffic lights for elderly people with low physical and cognitive ability. A large portion of this system is based on the information processing based on visual surrounding using computer vision or image processing on Matlab. In the future, it will be possible to reduce the traffic accident rate by recognizing the traffic light with the black-box and smart-phone attached to the car and informing the elderly how to drive by voice.