There’s an old parable about a drunk man searching for his keys under a lamppost. A passerby asks, “Did you lose them here?” The man replies, “No, but this is where the light is.”
It’s a good laugh—until you realise how often it plays out in real life, especially in the world of traffic safety in mobility.
Take autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo or product suppliers like Qualcomm. They’re collecting petabytes of data, from LiDAR sensors, radar, high-def cameras, GPS, and more. The idea is simple—record everything, and the insights will emerge. But this “collect-it-all” approach creates a new challenge: the overwhelming difficulty of finding the moments that matter. Accidents, edge cases, anomalies—these are the keys. But they’re not sitting under the lamppost.
This is the modern version of the parable: companies know the valuable insights are in the shadows, but the sheer volume of data means they often settle for what’s easiest to access—what’s illuminated by default. For example, harsh events.
That’s where our Streetscope Hazard Measurement (SHM) comes in.
SHM doesn’t just help our customers see their data. It helps them know where to look.
Our SHM solution filters the noise and brings the relevant 0.1% into focus. Instead of sifting through endless driving hours, teams can zero in on that 5-minute stretch where the vehicle almost made an unsafe lane change — or hesitated at an ambiguous traffic signal.
In other words, SHM moves the light. It lets teams stop wasting time in the obvious places, and start finding answers where the real questions live.
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