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INTRODUCTION
At LUCI, user safety and independence are at the heart of everything we do.
We have invented the first driver assistance system for power wheelchairs and in doing so have had to invent the safety practices for the industry, as well. LUCI’s technology has over 40,000 hours of in-chair testing since 2018. In that time, we have built a comprehensive safety program to guide our testing and development of power wheelchair driving technology.
Testing shows that our technology is safe:
• LUCI’s drop-off protection is greater than 99% effective based on our curb drop-off protection testing methods.
• LUCI’s collision avoidance is 100% effective at slowing the chair before a collision with a detected stationary object and is approximately 95% effective at stopping the wheelchair completely before contact based on our test methods.
• LUCI currently has an approximately 4% false-positive rate that would cause an experienced user to have to use override when there is not a valid obstacle.
This report provides an overview of our processes for the safe testing and deployment of this technology, and the work we are doing to make LUCI safe and easy to use.
