HAMS: Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety

December 24, 2020

PATNA: State transport minister Sheela Kumari on Wednesday said that advanced training methods for efficient and transparent testing of candidates aspiring for a driving license would help to reduce road accidents in the state.

October 27, 2020

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) announced on Tuesday that it has joined hands with Microsoft Research India to develop smartphone-based HAMS technology for testing applicants seeking the driving license.

November 4, 2019

Bengaluru: Microsoft is working with the Regional Transport Office (RTO) of Dehradun to automate driving license tests through its system named HAMS (Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety). HAMS was originally conceived as a system to monitor drivers and their driving, with…

November 1, 2019

Microsoft has stated that its HAMS project enables the driver’s license testing to be an objective and transparent process. Microsoft has announced that its Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) AI project is being used at the Regional Transport Office, Dehradun,…

October 31, 2019

An AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team, HAMS uses a smartphone's front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.

October 30, 2019

The HAMS project (short for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety) uses a smartphone mounted to the windshield of a vehicle that’s positioned so that its front-facing camera can see and monitor the driver, while its rear-facing camera can monitor the road…

October 30, 2019

Microsoft Research has developed a smartphone-based driving test system that leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence to make a fair analysis of a driver's ability before issuing him or her a license. The system has already been deployed at Dehradun…

October 1, 2019

What if your driver’s license test will now be conducted by a smartphone attached to your car’s windshield and without an evaluator present in the vehicle? This is not science fiction. It is already happening.

October 29, 2018

Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, highlights research projects incolving cloud computing and deep neural networks.