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WeatherWay was created to prevent accidents by using weather predictions with accidents history
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Nowadays there are many apps to help you move through the city faster. Time is money, right? NO
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Our algorithm joins multiple “The Weather Company” API’s with Car Accident Databases to answer a simple question:
Would you arrive 20 minutes late to your meeting to save your life?
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WeatherWay provides you the safest route to your next appointment on a frictionless way
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Our algorithm works with a database of 115,572 accidents were compared with 5 years of weather history so we could know what areas of the city are affected by the weather on a way that causes accidents. Based on that, we trace a better and safer route for you
- There are nearly 1,312,000 crashes every year, which is 23% of the total vehicle accidents
- 6,250 people are killed and over 480,000 people are injured each year
- 74% of those crashes happen on wet pavement
- 46% during rainfall
- One of the top 20 causes for truck accidents involving deaths and serious injuries
- Weather was a critical factor in 20,000 crashes involving large trucks over a multi-year period.
- Trucking companies lose an estimated 32 billion vehicle hours due to weather-related congestion
###Innovation: How innovative is the WeatherWay?
- Nowadays, GPS Apps only care about how fast you can get from place A to place B
- WeatherWay cares about you and safety by preventing accidents and suggesting least dangerous routes based on our Big Data algorithm
###Relevance: Does WeatherWay solve a real problem?
- Yearly, there are more than 1 million vehicle crashes and 6,250 deaths where wheater was a factor.
- We offer a safer route based on analysis on weather prediction, a 5-year wheather history and more than 100 thousand car accidents database
###Functionality: How functional is your code?
- App gets your next appointment on Calendar and pulls directions from Google Maps API
- DataCloud API to check if there is bad weather on each leg(Ex: Turn right on street), so we can exatly predict on from what part of your route weather is going to affect you
- App checks .json generated by Workbench if route is dangerous. If it is dangerous, prompts for another route
- Safer alternate route is provided to the user
#Business Model
##B2B
- Sell data to Insurance companies
- Truck companies
- School buses
- Uber drivers
- Sell intelligent API
##B2C
- User of the App
- Freemium Model