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  Mrs. Rakhi S.*
Email: rakhi.s@atria.edu
Everyone enjoys travelling; it is a beautiful experience if you are on vacation! It was on a vacation that made me become a
researcher to contribute to this very problem. Which problem? You may ask. Wait ... Let me explain to you all. It was on a December morning when I and my family were heading for a vacation to Goa from Bangalore in our car. We started our journey in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. The ring road on which we were heading was covered with fog, which made it difficult for the sun to show its face even at 7 a.m. I was driving at 70 km/h, otherwise usually I drive carefully. There were few trucks in front of us; one was moving at a reasonable speed and the other at a higher speed. When I looked at the rear of the car, I could see a car that was coming at a very
high speed. I saw few youngsters in the car listening to music at a high volume. They overtook my vehicle and went. After about 10 min, we could hear a sudden thud in front of us and screams. Alas! It was an accident. What we could see was that the car the youngsters were riding was hit by one of the trucks in front of us. Although it was a minor accident, we had never experienced such an incident earlier. As we continued our journey, my elder son asked a question. “Amma, is there any way to avoid such accidents on the road?” We had discussions about this for some time. He was busy playing video games later. But I couldn’t stop thinking about the question he raised. Although our technology has improved so much, we still have thousands of causalities due to road accidents every day around the
 * Mrs. Rakhi S., PhD Scholar from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Karnataka, is pursuing her research on “Detection and Avoidance of Security Attack in Vanets”. Her popular science story entitled “As you Travel on the Indian Roads in 2050” has been selected for AWSAR Award.



























































































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