Exterior Seatbelt Engagement Light System

Exterior Seatbelt Engagement Lights

There is a national problem in the city streets and open highways with people wearing their seatbelts, and the result of people not buckling up is costing America plenty in lives lost, injuries, physical recovery, and emergency services. The Highway and Traffic Safety Department has estimated that American loses well over 27 billion dollars a year due to people not buckling up. Over the years, many states have adopted seatbelt laws in an attempt to decrease the high annual death and injury rate due to car accidents, and the offsetting fact is that, even though, most surveyed drivers approve of seatbelt use, over 80 percent, the national statistics and expenditures are still high. After analyzing the facts surrounding this matter, it is easy to surmise that the real problem with seatbelt use in America is not that people disapprove of wearing them, but that there is no conditioning factor in our society that teaches people to be vigilant about wearing their seat belts each and every time they enter their vehicles. This disparity is more than likely because drivers have always had an upper hand on law enforcement when it comes to seatbelts.
The development of the Exterior Seatbelt Engagement Light System is an idea that calls for a national bill or state-by-state legislation that will mandate that every vehicle in America be equipped with a set of lights that turns on one by one, whenever anyone in a vehicle engages a seatbelt. Once every vehicle in a state has this lighting system equipped to the rear of their car, it will provide law enforcement a constitutional way to determine if occupants of a vehicle are wearing seatbelts or not, give more stability to the monitoring of carpool lanes, and can, even, improve on the already socially acceptable concept on child safety.
It is the intent of the Exterior Seatbelt Engagement Light System to reinforce the national consensus of wearing seatbelts, and to, over a short period, condition all drivers and occupants of motor vehicles to wear their seatbelts on natural impulse, rather than, as a social chore. It is worth noting, by the high national consensus that most drivers will buckle up if encouraged to do so; therefore, it is highly likely that there will not be too much opposition to this exterior seatbelt legislation becoming national law. Clearly, this objective is a socially bipartisan mission that everyone can eagerly participate in; especially since, it is hard to say no to a nation saving 27 billion dollars a year and the real time cure to so much senseless deaths that this small-uncomplicated piece of electrical equipment provides.

Project mission:

To establish a non-profit organization that will develop, research, and explore every avenue of the Exterior Seatbelt Engagement Light System, and that will pursue all relevant issues such as political lobbying, design of prototype, gathering state and national projections, installation cost per vehicle, etc.

Potential impact:

This non-profit organization will propose the national and state bill, gather public support signatures, develop several exterior seatbelt prototypes, and meet with respective legislative members, resource groups, and philanthropist to gather the public support and momentum necessary to bring the seatbelt engagement light into being.
This non-profit organization, also, will begin by setting up California as a model state that will serve as an example for national legislation.
This project offers plenty of opportunity, national, and community involvement for all U.C. Berkeley students, professors, and administrators. In addition to saving lives, this proposal, also, offers vast and residual economical growth, and real time learning environments in areas like the production of prototypes, starting a nonprofit, proposing national and state bills, and, even, nationally enacting voter approved legislation.

Required resources:

1. Total project needs: $2,000
2. Other:

   It is the intent of Exterior Seatbelt Services to gather financial grants for the work necessary to bring this idea into fruition. The high end projected cost above, $252,000, is the 1st year annual cost projection(wages, paten, prototype, business property, etc) and it is arrived at without the consideration of grants. Exterior Seatbelt Services believes that there are grants available, and will work diligently to secure all of the public funding that is available.