An End-to-End System for Culturally-Attuned Driving Feedback using a Dual-Component NLG Engine
This work addresses safe driving in a low-resource environment, but it is incremental as it applies existing AI methods to a new domain-specific application.
This paper tackled the problem of providing culturally-attuned safe driving feedback in Nigeria by developing an end-to-end mobile system with a dual-component NLG engine, and a pilot deployment with 90 drivers demonstrated its viability with initial results on detected unsafe behaviors.
This paper presents an end-to-end mobile system that delivers culturally-attuned safe driving feedback to drivers in Nigeria, a low-resource environment with significant infrastructural challenges. The core of the system is a novel dual-component Natural Language Generation (NLG) engine that provides both legally-grounded safety tips and persuasive, theory-driven behavioural reports. We describe the complete system architecture, including an automatic trip detection service, on-device behaviour analysis, and a sophisticated NLG pipeline that leverages a two-step reflection process to ensure high-quality feedback. The system also integrates a specialized machine learning model for detecting alcohol-influenced driving, a key local safety issue. The architecture is engineered for robustness against intermittent connectivity and noisy sensor data. A pilot deployment with 90 drivers demonstrates the viability of our approach, and initial results on detected unsafe behaviours are presented. This work provides a framework for applying data-to-text and AI systems to achieve social good.