his week on the Big Tech Show, Adrian is joined by Barry Lunn, founder and CEO at Provizio, a company trying to save lives with radar technology that can help prevent car crashes.
Barry says the technology works by monitoring activity around a car while it’s being driven.
“Essentially what we see is a one kilometre cocoon all around the vehicle…we have 360 degree insight. We can see everywhere, all around you.
“You can just see the car directly in front of you. When it breaks, you break. We’re able to see five cars ahead of you. We’re able to see that car decelerate before its brake lights come on.”
But a career in AI and cars wasn’t always on the cards for Barry. Initially doing an Art degree, Barry says it was the best decision for him at the time.
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“School itself hadn’t really worked for me. I had left a couple of times. I was dyslexic and we didn’t know a lot about that in the eighties and nineties in Ireland, so I was diagnosed as a lazy child.
“No one can predict where the world is going, where jobs are going. I mean, how could I have predicted that I’d end up working in the vehicle industry?
“The great thing art college taught me was how to be self-critical. Artists are really good at that, putting their work up in front of people and working through a process to redefine and redefine and come to a place where they’re happy. I think that alone stuck with me through the whole thing.”
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