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Together For Safer Roads Launches Accelerator

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Our client Together For Safer Roads has announced its third annual Global Entrepreneur Program, a unique accelerator focused on early stage startups in transportation and road safety.

The 2020 Program is focused on addressing problems and building solutions in three core areas:

  • Intelligent Transportation Services: Creates new, safer road usage patterns and options to create more seamless, safer connections across modes of transportation, transportation infrastructure, and/or road user communities
  • Commercial Transportation Safety: Improves the safety outcomes of commercial drivers, commercial vehicles, and/or road operators critical to commercial transportation
  • People-First Transportation Solutions: Focuses on putting people and their road safety vulnerabilities at the heart of product design, thereby reducing the exposure for all road users simultaneously

Startups interested in the 2020 program can read details and apply online until September 30. A GEP Pitch Night event is slated for early December, where the cohort will be announced.

Together for Safer Roads’s Global Entrepreneur Program is connecting early-stage companies with road safety experts at multinational companies and universities to reimagine solutions that reduce crashes and fatalities on the world’s roads.

Can Tech Make Safer Drivers?

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Client Octo Telematics has partnered with ICBC for a one-year tech pilot project, recruiting as many as 7,000 drivers to see if technology can improve their driving and make B.C. roads safer. Octo will provide the telematics platform to track driving behaviors, monitor distracted driving, and provide an overall driving score.

“Participants will use a small smart tag that communicates with an app installed on their smartphone. As an incentive, participants will receive rewards in the form of gift cards to popular retailers and restaurants. Drivers will complete various driving challenges to increase their chance at rewards. The safer your driving, the more rewards you can earn.”

The pilot results will help determine how ICBC might use telematics in the future. Other insurers may also find interest in the results and how insurtech can make better drivers.

To sign up or read more details, visit http://bit.ly/OctoICBC.