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On A Mission to Eliminate Crashes Into Disabled and Vulnerable Vehicles

Every day, more than 340 preventable crashes involving disabled or stationary vehicles take place across America. Sadly, the numbers continue to climb. In addition, there’s been a 27% increase in fatalities of pedestrians attending to disabled vehicles -- often Good Samaritans who stop to assist.
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Through our experience, industry expertise and passion for improving road safety, ESS is focused on saving lives by helping to bring an end to these preventable tragedies.

We're On A Mission to Eliminate Crashes Into Disabled Vehicles

Every day, more than 200 preventable crashes involving disabled or stationary vehicles take place across America. Sadly, the numbers continue to climb, with recent studies (2017-2018) showing a nearly 10% annual increase in these types of accidents.
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In addition, there’s been a 27% increase in fatalities of pedestrians attending to disabled vehicles -- often Good Samaritans who stop to assist.
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Through our experience, industry expertise and tremendous passion for improving road safety, Emergency Safety Solutions (ESS) is focused on saving lives by helping to bring an end to these preventable tragedies.

It’s Time to See Disabled Vehicles in A New Light™

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ESS is working to eliminate crashes involving disabled vehicles with our intelligent emergency communications feature, Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol (H.E.L.P^®).

H.E.L.P^® is a regulatory compliant solution that provides two forms of highly effective communication to make disabled vehicles more visible:

(1) H.E.L.P.^® Lighting Alerts - highly conspicuous emergency-based lighting output, and
(2) H.E.L.P^® Digital Alerts - sent to oncoming vehicles via navigation / mapping applications and in-vehicle displays.

These features deliver advanced warning to oncoming traffic -- giving approaching drivers much more time to safely respond to disabled vehicles.
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H.E.L.P^® is a key component of ESS’ three-prong strategy to address this previously unidentified safety problem:

Emergency

Enhanced

1. H.E.L.P^® Lighting Alerts

‍H.E.L.P^® Lighting Alerts increase the visual conspicuity of stationary and disabled vehicles by adding an emergency mode to a vehicle’s standard hazard light system, which offers:

Faster and sharper flash rates combined with smart onboard intelligence
Emergency mode activation features which deploy automatically upon collision (airbag deployment) or other safety trigger events such as tire blowout, rollover, driveline failure or Autonomous Driving System "safe stop."
Manual activation by the driver when the vehicle is stationary and in park

2. H.E.L.P.^® Digital Alerts

Oncoming drivers are automatically notified via their in-vehicle displays and navigation applications, providing vulnerable motorists with a critical layer of protection, even beyond line-of-sight.

Digital alerts work in tandem with H.E.L.P. Lighting Alerts to create situational awareness of the disabled vehicle, typically 10-15 seconds of drive time in advance.
These digital alerts work seamlessly with OEM and third-party traffic data providers.

Advance

3. Societal Change

‍ESS is passionate about this safety problem and recognizes the best solutions are created at the intersection of awareness, technology and policy.

We advocate for updates to State Move Over Laws to expand their applicability to disabled passenger vehicles.
Safety technology deployment requires a strong commitment from state and federal government, NGOs, and the public to support automaker adoption to eliminate these preventable tragedies. Passage of the Infrastructure Act is a tangible embodiment of that commitment from the federal government.

Societal

Emergency Safety Solutions is working to eliminate crashes involving disabled vehicles with our new intelligent emergency communications feature called the Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol (H.E.L.P).

H.E.L.P. is a regulatory compliant solution that combines highly visible emergency-based flash rates of the vehicle lighting, and digital notifications sent to other vehicles and GPS-based mapping applications.

These features deliver advanced warning to oncoming traffic -- giving approaching drivers minutes, not just milliseconds, to more safely respond to the disabled vehicle.
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H.E.L.P. is a key component of ESS’ three-prong strategy to address this previously unidentified safety problem:

Emergency

Enhanced

1. Enhanced Emergency Lighting

‍Our H.E.L.P. solution increases visual conspicuity of stationary and disabled vehicles with the addition of an emergency mode added to a vehicle’s standard hazard light system, which offers:

Faster emergency mode flash rates combined with smart intelligence
Emergency activation features that deploy automatically upon collision (airbag deployment) or other safety trigger events such as a tire blowout or engine failure
Manual activation by the driver when the vehicle is stationary and in park