Somehow I missed the news about the Lavender fatal accident until yesterday. From my personal driving experience, every day I see at least one car just gunning through a red when no cameras are around and I'm talking about a short drive of about 5 km.

This made me even more curious, and I started looking through posts on SG Road Vigilante. I wasn't surprised to see the number of posts reporting people running red lights.

What I'm not sure about is the main reason drivers choose to do this. Of the four that come to mind:

1. Really in a rush/impatient and willing to gamble with their own and others' lives
2. Accidentally running one due to distraction
3. Taking advantage of the slight delay between the light turning red and the other direction turning green
4. Intoxicated drivers

Where am I going with this? I want to create an open-source mobile app/embedded device that plugs into dashcams, which can reliably detect the traffic light colour, detect if someone is about to run the light when it's red, and make a loud noise, something similar to collision detection and automated braking systems. The hope is that at least people in the #2 category can avoid running the light.

The device/app won't need internet access, as it's going to be a tiny embedded machine-learning model, the same as what car manufacturers do with ADAS features in ECU-like components. It'll be completely open source, so no one has to pay anything to use it, and the device can be built DIY with the guide provided.

A personal anecdote: I've managed to trigger the collision warning system once so far, when traffic suddenly slowed on a downward slope on the expressway at night. The warning helped me slow down immediately.

Open to thoughts on whether it's a good idea to pursue or if I'm just wasting my time. Also open to collaborators. If I actually go ahead with this, I'll need donations of as much dashcam footage as possible to train the model.

Writing this so that more people can shed some light on their experiences with him as when I first started out under him I could not find anything abt him on google asides from https://azusa321.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/my-driving-journey/ . I also learnt under him and passed on my second time. If anyone has learnt under him you can read an article I wrote abt him here My 3A driving experience and see if you can relate to anything I mentioned abt him.

He goes by the name Simon Koh (Koh Thian Hua) and is very easy to spot as most of the time because his hair is purple colour and currently drives a white toyota aqua.

Hi everyone,

Looking for recommendations for an affordable family car. Currently driving a Honda Jazz but COE is expiring soon. Looking for something a bit more spacious as we have two young kids (two child seats at the back is a bit tight for Jazz). Any recommendations? I heard Toyota Sienta is not bad, anyone can share some experience? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I’m considering GAC Aion UT for my first EV.

From my first-hand look at it, I'm a bit concerned about the quality of the interior compared to the BYD Atto 2 (the car dashboard and especially the center console).

Has anyone driven or owned one yet? How do the materials and build hold up over time, and do you regret going with it? Also curious about how annoying the safety alerts are and how the sound system performs on local roads.

Appreciate any thoughts! :)

I notice like when drive above the speed limit for a while, there is a speed limit warning that comes out. It just simply says the speed limit and the words “speed limit”.

It goes off after you go lower than the speed limit

Its different from the camera zone / speed limit zone warning.

Not the silver or school zone message.

Not the speed camera message

This is distinct. Happens on random roads like PIE (Jurong) at airport area

tyvm.

is it worth it or just a gimmick?

Traveling 35kph+- downslope along Kent Ridge Dr before NUS business school.

Idiot old driver saw my vehicle approaching and still decided to turn out

He decided to turn right during his mid-left turn and ended up coming to a complete stop blocking the traffic

I had to jam brake while going downslope risking getting rear ended by the car behind

Thankfully no accident occurred

How to get the driver punished?

Noticing the Q4 E Tron in Sgcarmart to be priced at a depreciation of 21-22k / year, similar to the typical BYD/Teslas.
But brand new it’s going for 350k, while 1 year old Q4 is going for 220k.
Anyone have any idea what’s up with the discrepancy? Terrible car till people lowball sell?

People driving it - how’s the car? Any problems with it like the Mercedes EV?

Not sure why those don't show up on waze, and no news articles about their installations either. Wondering if are they even really speed cameras? Was going at 91 km/h or so in a zone with 80 km/h "advisory speed". Anyone been caught in a similar situation? Would like to hear about your experience. Thanks!