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News: Trinity Old Library in 2022 A year of great change; Advanced Driving Assistance Systems could prevent a quarter of road crashes
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Members of the Old Library team with Minister Malcolm Noonan, Provost Dr Linda Doyle and Librarian Helen Shenton. Trinity Old Library in 2022:
A year of great change
2022 will be a year to remember for the Library of Trinity College Dublin. The monumental task of decanting the Library collections began last spring as part of the Old Library Redevelopment Project.
All of the Library’s Research Collections housed in the Old Library are being transferred to special storage.
This means removing 350,000 Early Printed books and a total of 700,000 collection items as part of the Library collections. Readers will continue to have access to all material in an Interim Research Collections Study Centre during the lifetime of the building conservation project.
The first book to be decanted was a 19th century publication, ‘Reeves’ History of the English law: from the time of the Romans to the end of the reign of Elizabeth’ and many more have followed.
Advanced Driving Assistance Systems could prevent a quarter of all road crashes
INSTALLING Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) on all cars in Britain could reduce car crashes by 24%, researchers in Ireland and Luxembourg have found.
The researchers from Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software at University of Limerick and Motion-S, Luxembourg, also found Automatic Emergency Braking is the most impactful technology, reducing three out of the four most frequent accident categories – intersection (by 28%), rear-end (by 27.7%), and pedestrian accidents (by 28.4%).
The research team believe similar outcomes and results could be achieved on roads in Ireland.
Based on publicly-available road safety reports from Britain for 2019, the research team estimates that a full deployment of ADAS would reduce accident frequency in the UK by 23.8%, thus representing an annual decrease of around 19,000 accidents.
Existing research shows that connected and automated vehicles are expected to improve road safety substantially, including reducing accident frequency and severity.
According to the American Automobile Association, as of May 2018, 92.7% of new vehicles in the United States have at least one ADAS.
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