The screen in Delphi's automated vehicle shows the car stopping on its own after communicating with a stop light at an intersection at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in this January 5, 2016 file photo.REUTERS/Rick Wilking/Files
Eran Shir has an ambitious goal: Eliminate car crashes without waiting for the advent of autonomous vehicles.
His company Nexar makes an app that turns smartphones into an "intelligent" dashcam that uses the phone's camera, accelerometer and gyroscope to collect information about what's happening on the road and to send it to the cloud for machine-learning analysis.
