The number of road accidents in Kenya has been continuously rising with the recent National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) statistics showing that 2,608 people have been killed in the past 11 months.
An interesting system developed in Korea could just be the ultimate saviour to reduce the increasing number of fatalities on major highways in the country
The Rolling Barriers System is an incredible technology devised by a company called ETI (Evolution in Traffic Innovation) which replaces the ordinary metal guardrails.
With the rolling barrier, the impact energy of speeding vehicles is absorbed and converted to rotational energy which then propels the car forward instead of crashing.
The rolling barriers have a rotating barrel made of EVA (an elastic polymer material that is similar to rubber) with excellent shock absorption power, three-dimensional buffering frames and dense props supporting the frames.
They also come with an attached reflective sheeting for good visibility.
According to the brains behind this concept, the rolling barriers prevent vehicles from going through the rails unlike the metal guardrails
Though not promising zero accidents, rolling barriers offer a solution to reduce deaths on the roads.
Here is the video courtesy of Interesting Engineering:
[Video: https://youtu.be/oqizgbRpzaI]
