一名14岁的女孩找到了解决汽车盲点问题的方法

Every driver is familiar with the dreaded blind spot problem. However, it is more than just an annoyance. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 840,000 car accidents occur due to the blind spot. Those zones which cannot be directly observed by the driver often causes incidents that result in serious property damage and in some cases even fatalities. While drivers can take precautions such as adjusting the driver’s seat and side mirrors properly, installing backup cameras and so on, they won’t eliminate the invisible spots completely. Therefore, the driver will always have to carry the responsibility of being constantly aware of blinds spots as failing to do that can lead to accidents.

每个司机都熟悉可怕的盲点问题。然而，这不仅仅是一个烦恼。据国家公路交通安全管理局统计，盲点导致的交通事故超过84万起。司机无法直接观察到的区域经常造成严重的财产损失，有时甚至造成死亡。虽然司机可以采取适当的预防措施，如调整司机的座位和侧镜，安装备份摄像头等，他们不会完全消除看不见的盲点。因此，司机必须时刻注意盲点，否则会导致事故。

Luckily, now there’s a solution for that and it comes from a 14-year-old girl, who doesn’t even have a driver’s license yet.

幸运的是，现在有一个解决办法，这个办法来自一个14岁的女孩，她甚至还没有驾照。

However, not being able to drive didn’t prevent Alaina Gassler from understanding the important issue of traffic accidents resulting from blind spots.

然而，不会开车并不能阻止阿莱娜·加斯勒理解由盲点导致的交通事故这个重要问题。

In fact, she knows the problem so well, that she actually solved it for us. And the way she did it is nothing but genius.

事实上，她非常了解这个问题，所以她为我们解决了这个问题。她做这件事的方法简直是天才。

Earlier this week, Alaina Gassler from West Grove, Pennsylvania presented her invention at the Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) competition for middle schoolers from the Society for Science and the Public.

本周早些时候，来自宾夕法尼亚州西格罗夫的阿莱娜·加斯勒在面向科学与公众协会中学生的Broadcom大师(数学、应用科学、技术和工程)竞赛上展示了她的发明。

Her project is called “Improving Automobile Safety by Removing Blind Spots” and work in a relatively simple way as she explained: “I did that by having a camera behind the a-pillar of a car and the camera sent the video to a projector that projected the image onto the pillar essentially making it invisible and making the driver see behind it.”

她的项目被称为“通过消除盲点改善汽车安全”，并以一个相对简单的方法起作用,她解释说:“我是这样做的，在汽车的a柱后面有一个摄像头，摄像机将视频发送给投影仪，投影仪将图像投射到柱子上，本质上使其隐形，使得司机能够看到后面。”

To complete this invention, she used easily attainable materials such as a webcam, projector, and 3D-printed materials that project the view from outside your vehicle onto the blind spots of your car.

为了完成这项发明，她使用了容易获得的材料，如网络摄像头、投影仪和3d打印材料，这些材料可以将你车外的景色投射到你车的盲点上。

Gassler was awarded for her life-saving invention. It earned her the top place in a nationwide competition with the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize in honor of overall STEM excellence.

加斯勒因为她的救命发明而获奖。这让她赢得了全美竞赛的冠军，并获得了2.5万美元的塞缪尔利基金会奖，以表彰STEM的整体卓越表现。

图片来源：And?elika Jasevi?iūt?